Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Work hard, drink hard" is not exactly a national motto, but the Japanese seem to do both with rare dedication. Last year they spent a staggering $17.8 billion on alcoholic beverages, up fivefold from ten years ago. Of the $222 that the average Japanese adult invests in hard stuff every year,* 42% goes for beer and 31% for sake (rice wine). What is remarkable is the rise of a Western spirit: whisky. It accounts for 20% of all alcohol sales and comes in scores of brands, more than half of them made in Japan...
Canada Bill Jones' Motto and Supplement. It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. Supplement: A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.−Anonymous...
...Evenhandedness" is the Administration's motto for dealing with China and the Soviet Union these days. President Jimmy Carter and Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski both recognize that Washington's announcement of diplomatic relations with Peking, plus next week's visit by Teng Hsiao-p'ing, provoked the Soviets to stall on a new SALT treaty and a summit meeting between Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. In Washington, the Cabinet-level Policy Review Committee on China has recommended that the President avoid any steps that could be construed as a "tilt" toward China at the expense...
...taste for simplicity," wrote Eugene Delacroix, as undeceived a painter as ever lived, "cannot endure for long." That could be Philip Johnson's motto. The septuagenenan senior partner in the firm of Johnson-Burgee is a lean immaculately turned out dandy with a merrily cackling laugh, a tongue like a sjambok and a power over taste that no other architect can equal. "Old age," he says, "is the most important single thing to have. You just thumb your nose at the world and go about your business. We take about 10% of the work that comes into the office...
...theory, displaced homemakers are only temporary victims of change. But an American woman now has a fifty-fifty chance of being divorced, widowed or single by the time she reaches middle age, and as Milo Smith's motto indicates, she is likely to need a horse...