Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these days. The venerable collection of banks and investment houses known as the City of London is also embroiled in a shocking stock-trading scandal. Investigators are still probing deeply into allegations of wrongdoing surrounding the $4 billion takeover last year of Distillers, the British manufacturer of Johnnie Walker Scotch and Gordon's gin, by Guinness, the Anglo-Irish brewer and distiller. The sensational affair has already ruined the careers of some of Britain's best-known businessmen, and may bring regulatory retaliation on the City...
...workers can rent colonial villas staffed by servants and still save large chunks of salaries that may exceed $80,000 a year. That is a sum past reckoning in a country in which the average annual income is about $300. Such imported luxuries as Cuban cigars, French perfumes and Scotch whisky are available in hard-currency stores that Mozambicans seldom enter. "I often wonder who is helping whom," says an Italian engineer who has spent 17 years in the impoverished African nation...
Even people who dislike the press seem susceptible to the romance of journalism. The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary. Newsrooms have provided electric settings for popular entertainments: in the theater, The Front Page; Citizen Kane at the movies; Lou Grant on the tube. The public has even proved curious about the facts of the matter. The Kingdom and the Power, Gay Talese's anecdotal book about the New York...
Bernstein juggled a scotch on the rocks, a tin of imported cigarettes and a ream of papers. Throughout the night each one of those distractions competed for the great maestro's attention. With 70 "student leaders" in attendance, hung over and left over from the Memorial Hall dinner where Bernstein was supposed to give his speech, he told of "the Enemy" that people create to give life a clearer purpose. As a country, we force the Soviet Union into that role, Bernstein argued--putting down the scotch on the rocks and spraying ashes on the Junior Common Room carpet--just...
...have cheerfully overlooked the tedium of the second act in order to revel in the Ride of the Valkyries and the Magic Fire Music. As George Bernard Shaw observed, "Die Walkure is endured by the average man because it contains four scenes for which he would sit out a Scotch sermon or even a House of Commons debate...