Word: liquors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the fact that the University anticipates few alcohol-related problems and has planned only minimal extra security measures, area liquor stores say Yale weekend gets "pretty crazy" and is one of their busiest times of the year...
Rossi says that the committee proposed a cap on the number of liquor licenses and the number of fast-food operations. "If you go back five or six years, neighborhood stores went out of business and were replaced by fast food places. We want to reverse that," Rossi said...
Philip Morris hopes Kraft will not be as resistant to a takeover as Pillsbury, which is fighting a $5.2 billion offer from Grand Metropolitan, a British liquor conglomerate (J&B Scotch and Smirnoff vodka). Last week the company took out full-page newspaper ads that showed the normally cherubic Pillsbury Doughboy with a grim expression and wearing boxing gloves. Warned the ad: "We're not going to sit idly by while an opportunistic British liquor and gambling company tries to buy respectability...
...flesh to the fictive narrator of the two earlier books. Literally. "The dude I call Exley," as the writer refers to his hero, stands 5 ft. 10 in. and occasionally balloons up to 180 lbs., thanks to the metabolism of aging, innumerable beers and a quart or so of liquor a day. He still lives in his native upstate New York, where he keeps his mother company in her house. When he learns that his older brother William, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, is dying of cancer in Hawaii, Exley hops a plane along with "the old lady...
...also gave us gonzo journalism, that self-consciously hip form of social commentary. The conventions are rather rigid. The reporter should work for a publication that is liberal in both its outlook and expense-account policies. He should know not only how to do light drugs and hold his liquor but also how to fold these manly vices into the copy...