Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry points to recent research linking moderate drinking to reduced rates of heart trouble. A California study, conducted with funds supplied by the alcohol industry, found that moderate drinkers have 40% less chance of hospitalization for coronary problems than nondrinkers. Proof may be years away, but one theory is that alcohol helps raise the level of certain cholesterols in the blood that act as cleaning agents for the cardiovascular system. DISCUS, says Cameron, is stepping up efforts to show that "moderate consumption of liquor by normal adults is just as safe as beer and wine, and may even be beneficial...
Calls for spirits are the lowest ever at the superdeluxe Ma Maison restaurant in Los Angeles; wine accounts for 80% of sales. Patrons of New York City's most famous saloon, the "21" Club, are rattling the aged bar with their orders for such low-proof and nostalgic concoctions as kir royale--champagne sweetened with a spoonful of French black-currant liqueur. At Elaine's restaurant, an uptown Manhattan hangout favored by the likes of Woody Allen and Michael Caine, the wee-hours drinkers have evaporated; the bar empties "early," around 1 a.m. Commuters on the Long Island Rail Road...
...quite right. Isn't that actually a perfectly natural process, particularly among friends? More important, is this not proof that we are coming out of the dark ages of the Nazi...
...remarkably similar to the one that could account for the irregularities in the orbit of Uranus. The beauty of the theory, in Whitmire's view, is that it relies on a planet originally proposed for reasons that have nothing to do with mass extinctions. Still, he admits, the proof of the pudding "is going to come in the observing...
...PROOF, Francis...