Word: scotch
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When I got back from intersession, I went to see my blockmate. She wasn’t home yet, but had left the door unlocked, and scotch-taped to a corner of her desk was a list of New Year’s resolutions written in bright marker and peppered with exclamation points: Go to the gym three times a week! Call parents more often! Get more sleep! Eat more healthily! The paper was still as clean as next month’s calendar page. The list reminded me of nothing so much as the cardboard-and-bed-sheet boat...
...show-biz duo--singer Dean Martin and hey-lady-comic Jerry Lewis--as a show-biz duo. It starts where their public lives do, in a crisply directed sequence with the two preparing to go onstage: the camera zeroes in on their hands, as Martin coolly downs a Scotch and Lewis fusses with his props. From their first meeting in 1945 through their heyday in the 1950s, Martin and Lewis shows how they fused opposite stereotypes--the smoky Italian lover and the nervous, nasal Jewish kid--into a sex-and-yuks act more successful than either had been separately...
...output to meet growing world demand. Production doubled again in 1990, and with the completion of the latest extension, the makers of the world's third best-selling malt whisky - meaning it's made from malted barley, unlike the grain whisky that makes up the bulk of most blended Scotch - will have the capacity to produce around 13 million bottles a year. "We've come a long way since 1960, when we sold maybe 70 bottles of malt whisky worldwide," says distillery manager Graham Eunson. "Last year we shipped over 8 million bottles - and the new capacity says...
...foreseeable future their main battleground will continue to be Europe, the largest market for Scotch with exports, now worth $1.4 billion annually. For reasons nobody has been able to fathom (unless they've actually tasted ouzo), the Greeks drink more Scotch per capita than anyone else. Equally surprising, the French buy more whisky in a month than Cognac in a year. France remains the largest importer in volume terms, but higher margins make Spain's market more lucrative. Last year it was the world's top market for Scotch in value terms with sales worth $460 million...
...radical Nevada proposal, having given heaps of money to the Marijuana Policy Project, which is running Question 9 there. "The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking...