Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gifford, that means limiting the height of new buildings, preserving historic landmarks, parks and green spaces. The group has also secured a cap on the number of liquor licenses granted here...
...Four years later, as Nabisco's president, Johnson sold out to RJR Reynolds for $4.9 billion and soon became president of the merged company. After adding the title of chief executive officer in 1987, he swiftly moved RJR Nabisco headquarters from Winston-Salem to Atlanta, sold the Heublein liquor business and slashed the corporate staff from 1,000 to 400. The dapper Johnson, a friend of such sports figures as hockey star Bobby Orr and broadcaster Frank Gifford, is described as a "charmer" by one associate. Another warned that when the boss was displeased, "swift as a sword, he would...
Carey similarly glosses over an incident that took place over Loos' play, Happy Birthday. He reports that "the censors felt the play was an endorsement for liquor-get drunk, get your...
...enough and loud enough, it has been said, it will make itself true. For some time now, Harvard students have been bombarded by vicious attacks on the final clubs and lurid stories of their alleged misconduct, culminating in Elizabeth Wurtzel's rambling opinion piece in last Tuesday's Crimson ["Liquor, Pot, Cocaine, Ecstasy and Sexism," 11/22/88] which insinuated that club members are somehow responsible, among other things, for the homelessness problem in Cambridge. Lisa Schkolnick's complaint (not yet even a lawsuit) against the Fly Club to the Massachussetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) is as yet unresolved. But the club...
...cannot deny that I have spent a fair amount of my time at Harvard at final clubs. I have drunk their liquor, snorted their cocaine, smoked their pot, popped their ecstasy, eaten their food and danced on their floors. I have no right to say what I'm about to say, or think what I really do think about these organizations, because I too have had my final club...