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...year deal to sell premium whiskies blended specially for the Korean market under the Lancelot label. "It's a market that sells on quality," says Good, whose company plans to charge around $355 a bottle for the 30-year-old version of its Lancelot range. "The Koreans don't balk at paying top prices for top Scotch." Although the future of Scotch will be determined by the performance of its basic, blended brands, there's good money to be made from the single malts - as Glenmorangie's expansion can attest. Global enthusiasm for pure malt whisky has enabled the market...
Knoxville heads back to Beverly Hills to see his personal doctor, who diagnoses a mild concussion and doesn't balk at the filming of the five stitches he sews into the back of Knoxville's head. As Knoxville dizzily hobbles off, he turns around to say goodbye to the journalist who's been sharing the bloodbath of a day with him. Without a trace of irony, he says, "Take care of yourself...
Washington says only such a definite promise of force could make inspections work. Critics see these terms as ones that no one could accept. France and Russia, with veto power in the council, are leading the campaign to tone down the terms enough to give inspections a chance. Both balk at writing in an advance approval for war; France wants to reserve that for a second resolution, in the event Iraq fails to fulfill the first. The Administration now seems resigned to working out a program that most of the council--the U.S. needs nine yeses, no vetoes--can live...
...testament to her creativity, Maasdorp manages to find a way to charge right through defenders, whereas others might balk at quadruple and quintuple teams. She creates space where others would not imagine it possible, and her unique playing style has benefited the team...
...squelch a European Union initiative to set a target and a timeline for increasing the proportion of their energy needs derived from renewable sources. It's not hard to see why the Saudis - who sit on top of almost two thirds of the planet's known oil reserves - might balk at governments being urged to use tax incentives and subsidies to woo their consumers off of fossil fuels. Elsewhere, however, it was the EU in the environmentalists' doghouse for nixing any discussion of the $300 billion that rich nations pay their own farmers in subsidies, which the poorer countries deem...