Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some sharp operators spotted opportunities in Coke's move. Dennis Overstreet, the owner of a wine store in Beverly Hills, bought 500 cases of the old stuff when he heard of the change. Two weekends ago, Overstreet sold the last of his stock, at $1.25 a 6 1/2-oz. bottle, or $30 a case. "They lined up around the block," he said. "It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life." One customer: Rock Singer Al Stewart (Time Passages), who called from London and put five cases on his American Express card...
...liquor stores don't do quite the business that would be expected during a week of almost continuous. The University "keeps them so well entertained" that the alums and senior don't need to buy too much of their own liquor, says Blake Allison of A Wine for A Reasons...
...those who find that Harvard provided extras are not enough, they can purchase cheerleading outfits and muscle shirts for their toddlers and small children, or an official Harvard wine carafe set with four glasses, says Charlie McDonald, buyer for the Coop's glassware and stationery department
...intensity and impact of Dubuffet's career were all the more vivid for its late start. Born in Le Havre in 1901, he followed his father's trade as a wine merchant and (apart from one desultory spell as an art student in his teens, and another in the 1930s) did not commit himself to painting until after his 41st birthday. Yet by the end of the war, and especially by 1947 -- when he exhibited his riotously funny and touching series of portraits of French intellectuals and writers -- Dubuffet's work was not only an object of public scandal...
...main hope for economic development lies in the exploitation of natural resources, which include gold, copper and diamonds. One instance of Sankara's example-setting parsimony: when the electrical system at the presidential residence needed repairing, he paid for the work by selling the contents of the well-stocked wine cellar accumulated by his predecessors...