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Given a certain rate of consumption (1 week = 1 case) and a certain price (1 case = $10-20), it is conceivable to spend over $1000 on beer during the course of a normal year. Figuring the average life span to be around 70 years, this adds up to a sum of money that could easily purchase a comfortable home or a couple of Porsches or three ashtrays for the Defense Department. So putting to use the skills I've learned from my alma mater, I have been doing some research to determine which brand of beer I will invest...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Liquid Assets | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...vote, with three Independent councilors dissenting, the Council voted to sell the plot next to the Martin Luther King elementary school to the Riverside-Cambridgeport Community Corporation (RCCC) for a token sum. The effective donation of land will enable the community development organization to build five units of housing on the site for sale at belowmarket prices of $55,000 to $60,000 apiece, said Pablo Calderon, RCCC's executive director...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Plan for Housing, Playground Approved | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...feel confident we can sell a lot of tickets for this show and have our profits go to setting up a fund for future events and concerts so we wouldn't have to shell out this lump sum again," said council member Thomas D. Warren...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Council Supports Concert | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...Japanese sun is also rising over the U.S. construction industry. Kumagai Gumi, a major Japanese construction firm, started $700 million in Hawaiian projects last year, an enormous sum in a state where all nongovernment construction for 1985 totaled $862 million. Nikko Hotels International is building a 425-room luxury hotel in Chicago's Riverfront Park Development and a 525-room hotel near Union Square in San Francisco. Aoki America Construction is building about 1,000 homes in Raleigh, N.C., in a joint venture with a local investor group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'll Take Manhattan - and Waikiki | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...mind | for the boys is a larger education. Before he is through, they will all be citoyens du monde. He uncorked a bottle of vin rouge and placed a large, juicy slab of meat on the charcoal grill. He looked serene, and if there were a word to sum up why, it would have to be a French one, naturally. Debrouillardise, say. Roughly, it means to know your way around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Everyman's Dream | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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