Word: perrier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While many health-conscious adults have been forsaking liquor for Perrier, children have been hitting the bottle with alarming abandon. The National Council on Alcoholism says that some 100,000 ten- and eleven-year-olds get drunk at least once a week, usually on beer or wine, and 3.3 million teenagers have serious drinking problems...
...diet and plastic surgery. The surface of The Garden of Eden is taut, chic and strangely contemporary. Newly married David and Catherine have pioneered their own Club Med on the Riviera. It is the perfect place for a sea change. The couple spend golden days brunching, mixing drinks with Perrier, wearing fisherman shirts and espadrilles, swimming and tanning in the buff. The rate of exchange is very favorable...
Trouble with the predictably absurb complications sets in when a played-out oil rig on the island strikes mineral water, i.e., Perrier. Now suddenly everyone wants Cascara. Michael Caine must save the island for the islanders against the designs of the great powers. He aligns himself with the island's only two revolutionaries, and attempts a desperate showdown against the forces of oppression, culminating in a benefit concert at the UN featuring Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Make sense...
Yuppies beware! The pricey European food products favored by young urban professionals may soon become even dearer. President Reagan threatened last week to slap new quotas and tariffs on such imports as French white wine, Perrier water, Heineken beer, Guinness stout, Swiss and blue cheese, and Belgian chocolates. The curbs will be phased in beginning May 1 unless the European Community rescinds restrictions imposed last month on $1 billion worth of imports of U.S. soybeans, corn and other agricultural products. Says Secretary of State George Shultz: "If we can't work something out, then we've got to fight...
...arrived in Washington at 6:30a.m. Women poured off the bus. Some women had a cigarette and a Perrier for breakfast. The marchers began to gather in a field between the Washington monument and the Capitol building. Various college banners were laid out in roughly alphabetical order. Directors, clothed in white to symbolize women's sufferage, scurried around to organize the marchers...