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...have a beer at lunch, perhaps a Manhattan cocktail or wine at dinner during the week, and he drinks every weekend as well. "I've continued to slam down the hard stuff with as much alacrity as ever," he says. Indeed, for every yuppie who has traded in vodka for mineral water, there seems to be a social drinker like Kamiya clinging to the old ways--or a teenager taking up a habit he may not be able to handle. The result: although drinking is definitely down nationwide, many Americans still drink as lustily as ever and alcohol abuse remains...
...month tenure, Andropov addressed many of the same issues and proposed the same solutions that his protege is now advocating. There were warnings in Moscow that Gorbachev would soon reintroduce another Andropov tactic, a crackdown on the endemic problem of alcoholism. Rumors have swept the capital that vodka will be rationed in the future...
...note at about 10 a.m. Monday saying that Gorbachev had been confirmed as General Secretary, he knew more about this Soviet leader than he had about Andropov or Chernenko. He had been told that Gorbachev is a 9-to-9, six-day-a-week worker, family man, restrained vodka imbiber, classical music fancier, hiker, reader. The problem of course is that those kinds of data tell almost nothing about Gorbachev as leader of a surly, hostile superpower. How did he rise so fast? Why was he chosen? What makes him special? There is no sure way to measure...
...berth almost the entire day, getting up only to run to the bathroom. But Nikolai Molyakov, deputy chief of the Department of International Organizations, taunted me. The best medicine for seasickness was to toss down "200 grams" of vodka, he said, urging me to accompany him to the bar. His suggestion made me feel even sicker, but I thought perhaps it would be more pleasant to die in the bar than on my bunk...
...have to make whisky so far ahead that now we are stuck with it." The surplus is not likely to be consumed soon. In the U.S., the biggest single Scotch market, the beverage is suffering from an old-fogy image. Many younger drinkers prefer lighter, whiter spirits like vodka and lighter still, white wine...