Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreshadowings and the airing of ambivalences about South Carolina and New York. Though aggressively Southern, Tom keeps his nose pressed against the windows of Manhattan sophistication. He is particularly fond of pricey restaurants where he can indulge his taste for overseasoned prose. At Lutece, for example, "I tasted the wine and it was so robust and appealing that I could feel my mouth singing with pleasure when I brought the glass from my lips. The aftertaste held like a chord on my tongue; my mouth felt like a field of flowers. The mousse made me happy to be alive...
Shepsle says he will also probably spend more time teaching and meeting students this year than usual. He says he has already seen quite a bit of interaction between faculty and graduate students--"people seem to have found the smallest excuses to stand around and have wine and cheese for a couple of hours...
...team consensus was to reduce the red ink by a total of about $115 billion. The teams called for raising about $38 billion in taxes; supporting levies on such items as beer, wine and tobacco; cutting $32 billion in defense, including funds for Star Wars; chopping $23 billion from Social Security and other entitlement programs; and taking $21 billion out of domestic programs like farm price supports. Said Senate Budget Chairman Pete Domenici: "They are a couple of steps ahead of us." Of course, none of the participants are running for re-election...
...California vintners, late summer is usually a time for crushing grapes after the harvest. But at several of the state's wineries, some of this year's crop may rot rather than become a hearty vintage. A strike by the Distillery, Wine & Allied Workers' International Union that began on Aug. 18 and soon curtailed production at six locations spread to three new sites last week, as workers began picketing the Charles Krug plant in Napa Valley, the Gibson winery in the Central Valley and Almaden in San Jose. Union leaders are threatening to strike at E. & J. Gallo, the industry...
...hour and to cut health-care and pension contributions. Growers say they must lower costs to compete with foreign wineries. Labor leaders, arguing that the employers are trying to bust the union, contend that the producers' sales are flourishing. Indeed, shipments of California wine, which totaled some $5.5 billion in 1985, were up an estimated 11% for the first six months of 1986 over the same period last year. The main reason: growing wine-cooler sales...