1.   Bill Gates quaffs Diet Coke like James Bond sips dry martinis.

2.   Dry martinis, thick steaks and fat cigars are proving that everything old can be cool again.

3.   George P. Shultz liked dry martinis and fireside chats.

4.   He prefers easing into a good biography of Lincoln, his feet propped up on the couch, to sipping a dry martini at a fund raiser.

5.   Pull up a dry martini and relax.

6.   She also vetoed the Scandinavian concept of creamed, pickled and smoked herring with the merlot and dry martinis.

7.   She predicted that a dry martini would revive her.

8.   These, remember, were people who actually drank dry martinis.

9.   Twenty-something guys ate steaks, smoked Cohibas, and discovered the ambrosia of the dry martini.

10.   Whatever its origins, the classic dry martini is undergoing a transformation of sorts.