Word: liquorous
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...amazing how frequently the content of ads and the stories scheduled to appear next to them threaten to conflict or to evoke unintended responses from readers. Quiggle and Strianse have become expert at avoiding the juxtaposition of, say, an air-disaster story and an airline ad. They know that liquor ads do not keep easy company with stories on religious fundamentalists. When a conflict arises, the ad is usually moved. But sometimes things slip through. Both Quiggle and Strianse are still talking about the week they allowed an advertisement for pen-and-pencil sets to appear on the same page...
...lawsuit, which was filed in August, 1989, alleges that the former Northeastern University student was raped at the club during a 1988 Harvard-Yale game party. In the suit, the woman argues that the club failed to supervise the event adequately and violated state law by serving liquor to minors...
Best Reason to Avoid Drinking with the Boys Research showed what experience has long revealed: women can't hold liquor as well as men. Women have far smaller amounts of a stomach enzyme that breaks down alcohol before it enters the blood. Thus they get blitzed faster...
...Gallo, the nation's largest wine producer by far, earns considerable profit from Thunderbird, a cheap, fortified beverage that winos call "sneaky pete." And some corporate proprietors of prestigious wineries -- such as Britain's Grand Metropolitan or Hiram Walker, which owns Clos du Bois -- have major investments in hard liquor...
With his customary common sense, Thomas Jefferson in 1791 applauded a congressional bill that subjected liquor, but not American-made wines, to an excise tax. "It is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich," he wrote. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Jefferson, alas, failed miserably to convert fellow citizens to his favorite beverage. Americans last year drank 23.5 gal. of beer and 26.6 gal. of coffee per capita but only 2.1 gal. of wine...