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Word: teas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depend. Most of the transit union's 15,000 members, however, cavalierly dismissed the action, and more than 75% of the city's trains ran on schedule. The strike was abandoned after just eleven hours, a remarkable event in a country where strikes were once as traditional as afternoon tea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor Strike!: But Nobody Listened | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Even bad Shakespeare contains more nuggets of literary gold than half the premieres of a normal Broadway season Kilty started off well in taking a chainsaw to Shakespeare's text: the lopped off lines are not missed. He set the play in interwar England, the land of tea, croquet, and highly mannered living. But the questionable decisions start coming hard and fast...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Love's Labor Pains | 5/24/1985 | See Source »

...owns both Paul Masson and Taylor wines, along with some 100 other spirits. To woo the yuppie sweet tooth, many distillers are marketing unusual-flavor drinks much lower than liquor in alcohol content. Bailey's Original Irish Cream Liqueur (whiskey, chocolate and cream) and Hublein's Long Island Iced Tea (vodka, gin, tequila, rum and triple sec) are successful examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Water, Water Everywhere | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

Some new drinking and socializing trends involve no alcohol at all. The "power tea" is starting to catch on with businessmen in big cities. Rather than gathering for whiskey at the cocktail hour, executives are collecting in hotel lobbies from The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla., to the Mansion in Dallas for decaffeinated Darjeeling and little sandwiches. Businessmen and -women talk deals at Boston's Ritz-Carlton, which offers a variety of teas, steeped in floral china pots. New York City's WaldorfAstoria reinstated tea service just over one year ago. Says Food and Beverage Director Thomas Monetti: "People like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Water, Water Everywhere | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...Chairman Bob Packwood began hearings on at least three different taxreform packages, predicting flatly, "There will be a tax-reform bill this year." If there is not, declared Delaware Republican William Roth, the committee's first witness, "we will have in this country the tax equivalent of the Boston Tea Party, except that it will be the politicians instead of the tea that gets tossed overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Second Front | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

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