Word: scotchness
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...prospect of running his family's liquor empire, Edgar Bronfman Jr. has faced his share of skeptics. One of the first, in fact, was his grandfather Samuel, a Russian immigrant to Canada who advanced from Prohibition bootlegger to spirits magnate, owner of a portfolio that included Chivas Regal Scotch and Captain Morgan rum. In a mid-1990s documentary about the family, Edgar Jr. recalled his grandfather saying, "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. I'm worried about the third generation." Such doubts didn't seem to faze Edgar Jr., who years ago declared, "I'm not going down in history...
...when France Telecom said it was severing relations with the German phone operator for refusing to dismiss CEO Gerhard Schmid. INDICATORS A Toast With The Most Scotland may not have made it to the World Cup, but they are there in spirit. Gains in South Korea and Japan helped Scotch whisky become the world's most widely exported liquor, breaking the billion-bottle mark as the market grew 6.4% to $3.4 billion. Take that, England. Consignia Consigned After nearly two years and 2 million dollars, Consignia - the meaningless word used to rebrand Britain's Post Office - is being returned...
...never taken a drink of alcohol until my freshman year of college,” Franken says. “My roommate and I split a bottle of scotch and got so drunk and I fell down the stairs and broke my glasses...
...settled in to the University routine. The aggressive magazine sellers loaded us up with more subscriptions than we could handle and the telephone was installed. Ice was acquired as well as a small refrigerator and gin, bourbon and scotch was procured. Glasses and shakers from the Coop soon found there way to Thayer and life took on a pleasant, but totally different, routine than heretofore. Classes were selected. Many veterans took extra classes so that they could finish sooner, but others stayed with the suggested loads. Martinis, shaken or stirred, were the drinks of choice...
...circles under his eyes, or the toupee that has gone from chestnut to salt-and-pepper, or the fact that as his Lincoln sedan has zoomed from event to event, Cianci has worked most of the way through a pack of Merit Ultralights while a half-finished glass of Scotch sits forgotten in the cup holder at his elbow and Steve Tyrell croons...