Word: wining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flood of hard-liquor ads," fumed Democratic Congressman Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts, who is well aware that his family's fortune was fortified with liquor profits. He has introduced a bill that would not only ban TV ads for hard liquor but also restrict those for beer and wine. "When advertising shows the way to get a pretty girl or guy is to suck down a brew," he says, "we want to take it off the air except after 10 p.m." President Clinton favors continuing the ad ban but has not endorsed Kennedy's politically riskier bill...
...spend a few bucks on an incendiary TV spot, then let the media spread the word. The industry needs the lift: sales of cases of distilled spirits, according to M. Shanken Communications, shrank from 190 million in 1980 to 135 million in 1995--a drop of 29%. Beer and wine marketers, meanwhile, exploiting the mistaken perception that their products contain less alcohol than distilled spirits, used such icons as Spuds MacKenzie and the Swedish Bikini Team to boost sales by even more than the distillers lost...
Seagram last year earned $725 million in operating profits from worldwide spirits and wine sales of $5.06 billion, but sales growth has been slow. Crown Royal has been a happy exception, with sales totaling 1.8 million cases in 1995 and growing 5% a year...
...year, wants to level the TV playing field. Alcohol is alcohol, goes the argument. Thus far, the networks seem inclined to abide by the ban, but that could change if the Crown Royal campaign is a hit. And if instead it goads Congress into action, then maybe beer and wine will get kicked off prime time as well...
...invite all arrogant newcomers or visitors to come enjoy the fun and the Rocky Mountain oysters. All those who have disparaged the importance of farming to the American economy, thought Idaho was in the Midwest, or made fun of an Eagle resident for mispronouncing the name of a French wine are extended a special welcome to our old-fashioned civic celebration...