Word: frankness
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...market. Nearly all of that is whiskey - a legacy of the colonial fondness for Scotch. India is the largest whiskey market in the world, so American whiskey producers figure they've got a head start in India compared to other new markets. "Indians are preordained whiskey drinkers," says Frank Coleman, senior vice president of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, a trade group for American spirits makers. "They've developed a taste for whiskey...
...elastic thrust that's both graceful and forceful. At street level, steel trusses appear from beneath the lower hem of the screen like sturdy legs beneath a swelling skirt, a gesture that calls to mind the "Fred and Ginger" building in Prague that was completed in 1995 by Frank Gehry, an L.A. architect Mayne admires...
...best toys transcend, their survival a testament to their purpose and power. The Babylonians played board games; the ancient Greeks had yo-yos. The Chinese were flying kites 3,000 years ago. Crayola crayons were first produced in 1903. In 1916, Frank Lloyd Wright's son John, inspired by the way his father had built an earthquake-resistant hotel in Tokyo, invented Lincoln Logs. And many great toys are accidents or improvisations, a serenade by kids whose first drum set is a wooden spoon and a tin pot. Play-Doh was invented as a wallpaper cleaner. In 1943 a Navy...
...company that is steering clear of the crappy economy, however, is Hallmark's biggest competitor, American Greetings. "Our cards don't specifically call out negative or challenging times," says spokesman Frank Cirillo. "It's a time of year when people can embrace their relationships and focus on the other people in their lives that give them strength throughout the year...
...forces by making companies choose between doing business with the United States or with Iran. In October, the House overwhelmingly passed the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act by a vote of 414-6 (one of the bill’s original co-sponsors was Harvard alum and Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank). This bill authorizes state and local governments to divest from companies investing in Iran’s petroleum and natural gas sector or doing business with Iran’s nuclear industry. Since these companies are already liable for sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act, states have a fiduciary responsibility...