Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shaker of martinis), would be horrified. America is tapering off, and doing so at a faster pace than at any time since Prohibition took effect in 1920. In restaurants, at country clubs and wedding receptions, and even on the screen, it is increasingly difficult to find anyone with a stiff drink in his hand. Sighs Restaurateur Duke Zeibert, who recently began carrying Moussy nonalcoholic beer from Switzerland at his famed Washington watering hole: "I'm from the old school of Scotch and soda and bourbon and water, but you just don't hear that much anymore. There's been...
...your stamina," says Sam Wolfe, a recent University of North Carolina law school graduate. "I can't remember a single business meeting in a long time where anybody's had a drink," says Warner LeRoy, owner of New York City's Maxwell's Plum. When someone orders a stiff one, "a mental trigger goes off with other executives at the table," says Jay Chiat, chairman of the Los Angeles-based Chiat/Day advertising firm. "It's not being judgmental; it's just that it's so much rarer...
...sales is the software industry, which develops the programs that tell the machines what to do. Because 18 million personal computers are already in use, software manufacturers can prosper merely by selling new programs to old customers. Software sales jumped 36% last year, to 62 million programs. Even so, stiff competition has given the industry a high mortality rate. In the past two years the number of major software producers has shrunk from more than 200 to about...
...their recent Boston debut at the Channel. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions put on a well-received show featuring the pleasing blend of guitarists Cole. Neil Clark and bassist Lawrence Donegan. The band is still a little stiff live, but Cole's cryptically personal songs bridge the band's charisma...
...argument is sound, so long as we only look up people convicted of violent crimes whose individual cases indicate that they can not be rehabilitated or controlled through halfway houses, probation or other less severe measures. Yet in many places where the prison problem is worst, there has been stiff resistance to laws which would incarcerate only violent criminals. In staunchly liberal Washington, D.C., where inmate overcrowding has been a notorious problem for years, public pressure recently forced the city to abandon plans to stop locking up non-violent criminals in favor of building a new federal prison...