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...refused.) "It's as bad as I've seen it in 46 years," says Brian McGuigan, an industry veteran and former managing director of McGuigan Simeon Wines, the nation's second largest wine firm. Viewed from Australia, the French measures seem timid and slow. Australia's 20 biggest winemakers account for 85% of the market, and they have reacted much faster to the crisis, cutting prices and taking the financial hit early by writing down the value of their stock. Some grape growers are pruning back vines or switching to citrus or almonds. And, in a boon to consumers, many...
Upshot: expense account. ’Nuff said...
...Manchuria, Polia’s birthplace, where the couple met in the late 1920s. He continued on to California—becoming an American citizen—and later returned to Harbin. Laurence was born in Japanese-occupied Shanghai just two months before Pearl Harbor. George was interned on account of his citizenship, leaving Polia to care for their...
...contaminants that are found in fish, such that people were reducing the amount of fish they consumed,” said Rimm. According to Rim, the media inflated a study published two years ago highlighting harmful dioxins and PCBs in some fish. These chemicals do exist in fish, but account for only 9% of their total presence in the US food supply, according to the HSPH study. Rimm also said that the hazards of fish-eating primarily apply to people in a susceptible stage of life and those who overindulge fish cravings. But even they should only be wary...
...should also take into account how other people would react to that, that somebody would litigate, some prediction about what the courts would find.... In international law there are no courts other than American courts and the American Supreme Court to be concerned about, but there is the court of public opinion. And I think the lawyers advising the Bush administration missed an opportunity to use law to structure a more workable and acceptable approach and strategy in the current conflict...