Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carrots as snacks during company meetings. He does not smoke, and he offers employees $6-a-month bonuses to give up the habit. IF YOU MUST SMOKE, reads an embroidered cushion in Mesa's corporate jet, PLEASE STEP OUTSIDE. But he is not averse to an occasional Scotch and soda at the end of the day, nor can he stop gobbling handfuls of nuts whenever they are within reach...
...cost of one bottle of Cutty Sark Scotch whisky went up last week, to $72,500. That, at least, is what Joseph and Catherine Zak's insurance company will have to pay for the bottle they served to Donald Gwinnell back in 1980. After leaving the Zaks' home in Long Branch, N.J., Gwinnell smashed his car head on into a car driven by Marie Kelly, who sued. Last June the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the Zaks and other hosts could be found liable if they served liquor directly to a guest and sent him out drunk onto...
...Mexico and Oregon have statutes that are similar in effect. Kelly, 31, armed with the court's ruling, went to trial last week to recover damages for her broken ankle and facial injuries. Her attorney argued that Gwinnell had downed the equivalent of 13 1 1/2-oz. shots of Scotch during his 90-minute visit; the Zaks, he said, had "poured and poured and poured." Before any witnesses could testify, the insurance companies settled. Kelly will get a total of $172,500, $100,000 of it from Gwinnell's insurance company, the rest from the Zaks'. Says Kelly: "If the whole...
...this elegant and glowing memoir, Lance Morrow sifts time like sand in an hourglass, revisiting the places and stations of his life. They are brilliantly specific, but they resonate far beyond their locales. In Washington, "politics, elections, chicaneries flowed through private conversation . . . marinated in Scotch and cigarette smoke," and the boy immediately associates tobacco with wisdom and maturity. At Harvard, a fellow student tells him Schopenhauer, the ultimate pessimist, " 'knows the way life is' . . . life was painful. 'No,' I would say. 'Life is not like that at all.' I was terrified that it might...
...some of them to photocopy secret files in return for nominal payments. Some staffers, who admitted using the photocopy machine in the Prime Minister's office, told police they received no more than $300 for a transaction and usually only $40. Sometimes payment was just a few bottles of Scotch. Said a dismayed senior official: "It seems the nation's top secrets were sold for a song." The identities of Narain's foreign contacts have not been disclosed, but the CIA, the KGB and Pakistan, all implicated in previous Indian espionage cases, were mentioned...