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...sugar and, some claim, the low caloric content of light beers. Get ready to hear a whole lot more about "dry beers," which are being introduced in U.S. bars, restaurants and supermarkets. After only two months of testing in five regional markets, St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, Inc., the nation's biggest brewer, is so enthusiastic about its version of the product -- Michelob Dry -- that it is launching it with the industry's biggest introductory ad campaign since Bud Light. Two other firms have joined in the dry stakes. In early November, G. Heileman Brewing Co. of Wisconsin, which also...
Anheuser-Busch is encouraged that during the test-marketing of Michelob Dry, word of mouth prompted a strong demand, particularly among women. Some of their capsule comments: "smoother," "very refreshing," "no beer aftertaste." The nation's other big brewers have adopted a wait-and-see attitude about dry beer, mindful that sales of Michelob's other brews (regular, light and dark) have recently fallen off. Ultimately, the fate of the new dries depends on the taste buds of the nation's 129 million beer drinkers, who can be both fickle and brand loyal all at once...
Rarely has the description "statesman" seemed so appropriate. In his long career, however, Urquhart represented no single state but rather every nation on the globe. During a 41-year career as a senior U.N. official, rising to the rank of Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, Urquhart, 69, found himself in the middle of virtually every major international crisis. Though he retired 2 1/2 years ago, Urquhart will be in the delegation that will travel to Oslo next week to receive the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the U.N. for its peacekeeping missions in Lebanon, Cyprus, Afghanistan...
...rally in the Vancouver suburb of Port Coquitlam, he told supporters that "2 million jobs are dependent on trade." Wherever he traveled the Prime Minister declaimed, "John Turner says the cause of his life is to tear up a treaty; the cause of my life is to build a nation." Failure to endorse the trade agreement, he warned, would leave the country mired in the "poverty of protectionism...
...donnybrook was only the most colossal of the deals that persisted last week in rearranging the U.S. corporate landscape. Hospital Corporation of America, the nation's largest hospital chain, ended more than a month of dickering and agreed to be acquired for $3.6 billion in an LBO put together by the company's management. Triangle Industries, which just two years ago acquired the packaging division of American Can in an LBO, agreed to be bought for $1.3 billion by Pechiney, the state-owned French metals firm...