In any case, the key ingredient is bourbon, which is why many of the best juleps have long been made with Makers Mark.

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It is through compromise, discussion, healthy debate, attending dinners and luncheons together, playing golf and basketball, or poker, sharing a mint julep or a Makers Mark, and so on.

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Like many others who wrote in with comments, he also questioned the entire shortage issue, and just yesterday Tweeted a picture of a shelf overflowing with Makers Mark at his local Safeway in Seattle.

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Last year Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Editors, Reverend And The Makers, Mark Ronson, Chemical Brothers and Sir Paul McCartney were among the acts who performed.

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In 2007, Facebook's young CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, welcomed widget makers by providing the kind of help that would ensure that their software could operate smoothly within Facebook.

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When trying to divine future employment in the small-business sector from surveys of business owners, policy makers and economic analysts need to take entrepreneurial optimism into account or their predictions will be off the mark.

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