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Yuppies beware! The pricey European food products favored by young urban professionals may soon become even dearer. President Reagan threatened last week to slap new quotas and tariffs on such imports as French white wine, Perrier water, Heineken beer, Guinness stout, Swiss and blue cheese, and Belgian chocolates. The curbs will be phased in beginning May 1 unless the European Community rescinds restrictions imposed last month on $1 billion worth of imports of U.S. soybeans, corn and other agricultural products. Says Secretary of State George Shultz: "If we can't work something out, then we've got to fight...
...arrived in Washington at 6:30a.m. Women poured off the bus. Some women had a cigarette and a Perrier for breakfast. The marchers began to gather in a field between the Washington monument and the Capitol building. Various college banners were laid out in roughly alphabetical order. Directors, clothed in white to symbolize women's sufferage, scurried around to organize the marchers...
...knew his creation was bound for Yuppiedom when "a Yuppie couple" went to Del Ray's booth in an open air market, and left two empty bottles of Perrier on his counter. Del Ray replaced the beer cans in his display helmet with the Perrier cans...
...People laughed and howled when they saw Perrier in it," Del Ray says. "Then people who dressed and looked like stereotypical Yuppies started buying them. I guess beer doesn't give it a clean image...
...year-old undergraduate in business at the University of Southern California, should know the real thing when he sees it. After all, he has been transformed from a pre-natal Yuppie to true breed since he developed the hat. "I drink Perrier, drive a BMW, and don't have an American Express Card, but I'd like to," he says...