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Sober Business Dealings

May 17, 2006 09:17 AM

From a guide to "Business Meetings and Negotiations in Ukraine" ($24.95, www.worldbiz.com):

If you are concerned about being forced to drink too much, which is often not a groundless concern, you may get around it by slowing [sic] sipping your drink. You may find the other people at the table downing the whole drink with a flourish. For Americans who are not used to drinking in this fashion, you can just sip with a flourish, so that in the next round there is not much to pour into your glass. If you are out in Siberia, where bottoms up is the law of the table, that is not going to work. But in Ukraine you can get away with it. It would be offensive to say "I have to go back to work. I really can't drink." One excuse not to drink is to tell your host that you are driving. That is the perfect excuse, because there is zero tolerance of drinking and driving in Ukraine. Another other [sic] excuse which works well is to say that you are on medication, or you are allergic.

Not listed as a suitable excuse: "I don't drink."

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