Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atillas" bear any resemblance to the dignified pastimes of Neanderthal Man. Indeed, the Neanderthal Men used eating utensils, played musical instruments, took snuff in moderation, and worked crossword puzzles in their spare time. These noble primates were unfortunately driven into extinction by our own aggressive ancestors, who drank white wine with steak, picked their noses with their thumbs, and made off-color variations on epigrams like "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...
...Wine Tastings...
There is beer, liquor and wine, and someone in attendance who can give you the play-by-play of the 1925 Harvard-Princeton encounter, a contest, incidentally, in which the Tigers triumphed by a 36-0 margin...
...sales to help speed their lackluster economic recoveries. But these countries are scarcely models of free-trade virtue. Within the Community, which has about 5.8 million unemployed workers, Britain limits imports of TV sets; West Germany is seeking to set quotas on Japanese ball bearings; France bars Italian wine; and Italy in May tightened restrictions on imports of Japanese motorcycles and parts. Some economists put much of the blame on protectionist measures in Europe and the U.S. for cutting the rate of growth in world trade almost in half, from 11% in 1976 to an expected 6% this year...
...dean of the business, which requires steel nerves and a finely honed mind, is Leonard Sheriff, 62. He is president of Sheriff Securities, which is generally considered to be the biggest of all arbitrage traders. Sheriff has the air of a boulevardier, is a wine authority and one of the important U.S. philatelists. Trained as a lawyer (one of his former partners is Diplomat-Investment Banker George Ball), Sheriff did a stint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and founded his arbitrage firm back in 1960. He is one of the few arbitragers whose clients give .him full discretionary authority...