Word: blunts
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...Marie Courselle knows all too well what he means. Château Thieuley, which her grandfather bought in the 1950s, used to sell about 30% of its output to big French retailers. Then, two years ago, it received a blunt message: Cut your prices, or we'll cut back on purchases. The Courselles refused, and their hypermarket sales dropped by half. They are now busy trying to build up a direct commercial network of their own. That means relying on a handful of merchants to sell into major markets, and doing the rest themselves. When they are not harvesting...
Marie Courselle knows all too well what he means. Château Thieuley, which her grandfather bought in the 1950s and which she now runs with her younger sister Sylvie, used to sell about 30% of its output to big French retailers. Then, two years ago, it received a blunt message: Cut your prices, or we'll cut back on purchases. The Courselles refused, and their hypermarket sales halved. They are now trying to build up a commercial network of their own. That means relying on a handful of merchants to sell into major markets and doing the rest themselves. When...
...wouldn't make our luck by staying the course and hiding behind Bush's fears of Middle East dominoes. We need him to unstrap America's still muscular diplomacy to seed the antiterrorist soil within Iraq, to structure a regional peace among states that cringe from regional war, to blunt the disasters of chaos and defeat--and perhaps even to snatch successes beforehand...
...Barton in a familiar role: the tormented lover. If there are any differences between her character here and Marissa Cooper, they’re not apparent. She wears flowing, angelic white clothes in a white-curtained room. But she’s clearly no angel, because she left poor Blunt so sad. The sexually-charged, possibly adulterous images of Barton wouldn’t have been out of place in the movie “Closer...
Desultory frames of grass, statues, a parking meter, and a parking lot litter the video with overwhelming feelings of loneliness and desolation. At the end, we hear Blunt coo about being “so hollow” and we see Barton in her bed alone as well. The suggested affair has possibly come to a close, leaving her just as stranded as her former lover. The only thing that we’re sure of in the end, and indeed one of the few sure things in life, is that James Blunt...