Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Severe price hikes scare the Chinese, who recall the hyperinflation of the late 1940s, when in three years Shanghai wholesale prices rose 7 1/2 million times. That disaster helped bring the Communists to power. To stop shopkeepers from using the government plan as an excuse for additional increases, 11,000 inspectors will tour Peking in search of price gouging...
...Made from such red grapes as Zinfandel or Pinot Noir, this wine is kept a pale salmon-pink by removing the skins, pulp and seeds from the juice before they darken the liquid. The result: a wine that tastes like a white and lacks the flowery bouquet of a rose. The Wine Growers of California are negotiating with Julia Child to tout their vintages on TV ads come September. Says William Young, western division president of D'Arcy MacManus Masius, the Wine Growers' advertising firm for the commercials: "We're trying to make Americans understand that wine enhances food...
...temperance is transforming a number of social situations and institutions. Bars and restaurant lounges used to be primarily for drinking. As customers taper off and new laws discourage happy-hour promotions, however, managers are pushing food to make up for lost liquor revenues. The China Rose in Arlington, Texas, replaced its traditional happy-hour offer with a 24-foot- long buffet stacked with Kung Pao chicken, Szechwan fish and egg rolls to keep customers on their stools. In front of the Long Beach Hyatt Regency hotel flies a flag emblazoned with a giant banana: the "fruit of the month" served...
...been in 10 playoff games already," Crimson Coach Alex Nahigian says, referring to the must-win nature of every game down the stretch. "The kids responded," Nahigian adds. "They rose to the occasion Let's hope they continue...
Ambivalence, indeed, seemed to be a keynote of the celebrations. Just before the parade got under way, Nguyen Van Linh, Communist Party secretary for Ho Chi Minh City, rose to celebrate Viet Nam's place "among the vanguard fighters for mankind's lofty ideals" and to extol its success in "overturning the global counterrevolutionary strategy of U.S. imperialism." But even Linh could not overlook the signs of decay around him. In Ho Chi Minh City (pop. 3.5 million) the walls of many houses are cracked, and the electricity supply is a sometime thing. Thousands sleep on the unswept sidewalks...