Word: liquors
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Best Reason to Avoid Drinking with the Boys Research showed what experience has long revealed: women can't hold liquor as well as men. Women have far smaller amounts of a stomach enzyme that breaks down alcohol before it enters the blood. Thus they get blitzed faster...
...Gallo, the nation's largest wine producer by far, earns considerable profit from Thunderbird, a cheap, fortified beverage that winos call "sneaky pete." And some corporate proprietors of prestigious wineries -- such as Britain's Grand Metropolitan or Hiram Walker, which owns Clos du Bois -- have major investments in hard liquor...
With his customary common sense, Thomas Jefferson in 1791 applauded a congressional bill that subjected liquor, but not American-made wines, to an excise tax. "It is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich," he wrote. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Jefferson, alas, failed miserably to convert fellow citizens to his favorite beverage. Americans last year drank 23.5 gal. of beer and 26.6 gal. of coffee per capita but only 2.1 gal. of wine...
...which includes a graduate president from each final club, banned the serving of alcohol to non-members on club premises during the punch. But liquor has been served to non-members during large outings, such as alumni dinners, club members said yesterday...
...Marjorie Gaines, a city-council member in Encinitas, an upscale seaside community that includes some of the encampments, charges that undocumented workers litter, breed disease, commit crimes and harass whites. Gaines claims that drunk aliens burned down a local convenience store after the owner refused to sell them liquor. "These are border toughs," she says...