Johnnie wont walk out

1.Fill in the text below with the following words: a. shoot up b. holds c. supplant d. excise e. stake f. blow g. turn h. red tape i. reach j. dropped k. tipple l. affluence m. sounding n. palates o. booming p. moan r. hindrance q. chain s. unshackling t. newly u. unsettle v. striding 2. Before doing the task, read the definitions of the following words: 1. hindrance =N-COUNT oft N to n A hindrance is a person or thing that makes it more difficult for you to do something. The higher rates have been a hindrance to economic recovery... x help =N-UNCOUNT Hindrance is the act of hindering someone or something. They boarded their flight to Paris without hindrance. 2. stride =VERB V prep/adv, V prep/adv If you stride somewhere, you walk there with quick, long steps. They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field... He turned abruptly and strode off down the corridor. /=N-COUNT A stride is a long step which you take when you are walking or running.
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With every stride, runners hit the ground with up to five times their body-weight... He walked with long strides. /= N-SING usu poss N Someone's stride is their way of walking with long steps. He lengthened his stride to keep up with her. /=N-COUNT usu pl, usu adj N If you make strides in something that you are doing, you make rapid progress in it. The country has made enormous strides politically but not economically. /=PHRASE V inflects If you get into your stride or hit your stride, you start to do something easily and confidently, after being slow and uncertain. The campaign is just getting into its stride... / =PHRASE V inflects In British English, if you take a problem or difficulty in your stride, you deal with it calmly and easily. The American expression is take something in stride. Beth was struck by how Naomi took the mistake in her stride. 3. all told You can use all told to introduce or follow a summary, general statement, or total. All told there were 104 people on the payroll... = in total There were 550 people there, all told. 4. ball and chain 1. a wife. (Mostly jocular.) I've got to get home to my ball and chain. My ball and chain is mad at me. 2. a person's special burden; a job. (Prisoners sometimes were fettered with a chain attached to a leg on one end and to a heavy metal ball on the other.) Tom wanted to quit his job. He said he was tired of that old ball and chain. Mr. Franklin always referred to his wife as his ball and chain. 5. red tape You refer to official rules and procedures as red tape when they seem unnecessary and cause delay. The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape. 6. excise =N Excise is a tax that the government of a country puts on particular goods, such as cigarettes and alcoholic drinks, which are produced for sale in its own country. ...this year's rise in excise duties... New car buyers and smokers will be hit by increases in taxes and excise. /= VERB V n, V n from n
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If someone excises something, they remove it deliberately and completely. (FORMAL) ...a personal crusade to excise racist and sexist references in newspapers. ...the question of permanently excising madness from the world. =ex|ci|sion excisions N-VAR The authors demanded excision of foreign words. 7. tipple A person's tipple is the alcoholic drink that they usually drink. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL) My favourite tipple is a glass of port. 8. If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do. (FORMAL) The trade unions are shackled by the law. ...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job. 9. shackle =N-PLURAL with supp If you throw off the shackles of something, you reject it or free yourself from it because it was preventing you from doing what you wanted to do. (LITERARY) ...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. /=N-PLURAL Shackles are two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone's wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping. He unbolted the shackles on Billy's hands. /=VERB V n To shackle someone means to put shackles on them. ...the chains that were shackling his legs... 10. unshackle =To free from or as if from shackles. 11. affluence Affluence is the state of having a lot of money or a high standard of living. (FORMAL) The postwar era was one of new affluence for the working class. = prosperity 12. stake If something is at stake, it is being risked and might be lost or damaged if you are not successful. The tension was naturally high for a game with so much at stake... At stake is the success or failure of world trade talks... /=N-PLURAL oft supp N The stakes involved in a contest or a risky action are the things that can be gained or lost. By arresting the organisation's two top leaders the government and the army have now raised the stakes...
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/=VERB V n on n If you stake something such as your money or your reputation on the result of something, you risk your money or reputation on it. He has staked his political future on an election victory... / =N-COUNT N in n If you have a stake in something such as a business, it matters to you, for example because you own part of it or because its success or failure will affect you. He was eager to return to a more entrepreneurial role in which he had a big financial stake in his own efforts... /=N-PLURAL the supp N You can use stakes to refer to something that is like a contest. For example, you can refer to the choosing of a leader as the leadership stakes. Britain lags behind in the European childcare stakes. /=N-COUNT A stake is a pointed wooden post which is pushed into the ground, for example in order to support a young tree. = post / = PHRASE V inflects If you stake a claim, you say that something is yours or that you have a right to it. Jane is determined to stake her claim as an actress... 13. palate You can refer to someone's palate as a way of talking about their ability to judge good food or drink. ...fresh pasta sauces to tempt more demanding palates. 14. ail If something ails a group or area of activity, it is a problem or source of trouble for that group or for people involved in that activity. A full-scale debate is under way on what ails the industry. 15. unsettle If something unsettles you, it makes you feel rather worried or uncertain. The presence of the two policemen unsettled her. = disturb 16. If a person or thing is supplanted, another person or thing takes their place. (FORMAL) He may be supplanted by a younger man... By the 1930s the wristwatch had almost completely supplanted the pocket watch. = usurp 17. grace 1. To honor or favor: You grace our table with your presence. 2. To give beauty, elegance, or charm to. 3. Music To embellish with grace notes.

Johnnie wont walk out

Why Scotch-whisky makers want to stay in the European Union
Feb 23rd 2013

THE dandy has been out ever since he first graced a bottle of Johnnie Walker in 1908, becoming the worlds favourite Scotch whisky. Having made his name along the trading routes of the British empire, Johnnie Walker might be expected to support the Eurosceptics contention that Britain would be better off .itself from an ailing EU to seek its fortune on the global stage. After all, the best hope of finding new Scotchdrinkers lies with .affluent Indians and Chinese. Yet talk to whisky-makers and what is striking is that they see the EU and its single market as vital, both now and in future. Far from being a ball and .., the EU is now the industrys essential sword and shield for conquering world markets. Why? Start with the EUs single market. It is the worlds biggest economic block, in which most goods can be sold anywhere without... Despite its woes, the EU accounts for about 40% of total Scotch sales. France is the largest market, nearly twice as big as America, says International Wine and Spirits Research, a market-intelligence firm. Spain is a larger one than China, despite all its troubles (or perhaps because of them). As new countries join the EU and remove their trade barriers, sales of Scotch tend to. This happened in Spain after the end of Francos authoritarian rule, when whisky-drinking became a symbol of and emancipation. In Greece a whiskaki, preferably a Johnnie Walker, became the preferred middle-class drink, a sign of being truly European. Sales in Greece have recently because of the recession and rising ..taxes. But they are in Poland, which joined the EU in 2004 and has enjoyed strong economic growth. Whisky vary from country to country. For Johnnie Walker as a brand, Europe has become a relatively smaller market. But for Diageo, the British multinational that owns the label, Europe still accounts for nearly 30% of total sales. And precisely because Diageo is a global company, the EUs weight in trade negotiations is crucial. Paul Walsh, Diageos boss, says that many of the hundreds of drinks Diageo sells owe their place in the world to the EUs ability to negotiate trade deals. The biggest prize is India, which consumes almost as much whisky as the rest of the world put together. Yet instead of Scotch, Indians drink local varieties bearing Scottish- names, such as McDowells or Bagpiper, that are made from molasses. Scotch purists say these are rums not whiskies. But India imposes tariffs of 150% on imported whisky, putting true Scotch beyond the .of all but the rich. Whisky-makers hope the EU will win a big tariff reduction under a free-trade agreement that it is negotiating with India.

Scotch producers ..about protectionism elsewhere, but they benefit from EU rules defining Scotch whisky narrowly by geographic indications. It must be distilled in Scotland from the fermented mash of malted cereals, with or without whole grains, and matured in wooden casks for three years or more. It cannot be sweetened or flavoured. Such rules preserve the distinctiveness of Scotch against competing whiskies from, say, America or Canada. They also allow the industry to create an aura of whisky connoisseurship like that for fine wine. What about claims that the EU ties firms in, hampering their competitiveness? Whisky-makers acknowledge some irritants. But they prefer common EU rules to lots of national ones on everything from bottle-sizes to labels. Harmonised regulations reduce costs and can set global norms. The worst country for adding labelling rules on top of EU ones, says Nick Soper of the Scotch Whisky Association, is Britain. All told, whisky-makers say, British EU membership has produced benefits that would have been unattainable from outside. The rise of Scotch is a story of canny marketing, innovation and political luck. One boon was the devastation of Europes vines in the 1860s by an infestation of lice, allowing whisky to supplant brandy as Englands favourite.. Trading ships brought whisky to the ends of the British empire. Yet in the 19th century Irelands malts had more prestige. Only by the ..of the 20th century had Scotch begun to .them. One reason was the rise of Scottish blenders, such as the descendants of the original John Walker, a grocer from Kilmarnock, who mixed malts with mass-produced spirit derived from other grains using continuous-distillation techniques. This allowed the marketing of lighter, more affordable whisky of consistent quality. A Royal Commission in 1909 ruled that blends could be called whisky. The cost of disunion A further reason for the success of Scotch has some resonance today. The turmoil of Irelands independence struggle and civil war .the distillers there (many of whom were seen as unionist). They suffered another big with the loss of the American market during prohibition, which hit Scotch producers less hard. And after independence in 1922 the Irish industry was progressively excluded from the British market, especially in the 1930s. Today it is Scotlands distillers who face political uncertainty. Scotland a referendum on its membership of the United Kingdom in 2014. And Britains David Cameron is proposing to hold a vote on EU membership in 2017. At .could be billions of litres of whisky, worth tens or even hundreds of billions of pounds, ageing in oak casks around Scotland. What will be the status of this liquid gold? Without being too overt about it, Scotch-whisky makers strong preference is to keep the double union: Scotland within the UK, Britain within the EU. But the absolute priority is to remain within the EUs single market. Johnnie Walker may keep marching across the world. But he does not want to walk alone.