Word: businessman
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...According to Fridjohn, the practice is not limited to South African winemakers. He cites a foreign businessman who openly offered such additives at a Cape Town wine festival last year, and comments, "I don't think they were produced solely for South Africa's benefit." The good news, though, is that the country is taking action. With luck, the only future headaches for South African wine lovers will be caused by intemperate consumption, not excessive chemicals...
...According to Fridjohn, the practice is not limited to South African winemakers. He cites a foreign businessman who openly offered such additives at a Cape Town wine festival last year, and comments, "I don't think they were produced solely for South Africa's benefit." The good news, though, is that the country is taking action. With luck, the only future headaches for South African wine lovers will be caused by intemperate consumption, not excessive chemicals...
...woman set out to explore the Australian outback. Sandy (Toni Collette) is a healthy, hearty geologist, bored and impatient in her role as guide. Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) is an emotionally closed businessman who is dangerously insistent on taking the less traveled desert roads. They almost die on one when their SUV gets stuck in the sand...
...live Hizballah!" they chanted. "Long live Hassan Nasrallah!" The name of the Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist militia leader wiped the smile off Arafat's lips: he immediately turned around and rushed into his office. For Arafat, last week's swap of Palestinian and other Arab prisoners for a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers represents a real problem. The three-year intifadeh has left a power vacuum in the West Bank and Gaza that Hizballah, the Beirut-based, Iranian-backed Shi'ite group, has gradually been filling. The prisoner swap, mediated by Germany, boosts Hizballah's support...
...advance the cause of peace in the Middle East, four Israeli and four Palestinian climbers--including former combatants in the fighting--scaled a hitherto unconquered mountain in remote Antarctica last week and raised their flags on its summit. The Israeli-born businessman behind the plan, HESKEL NATHANIEL, then read a proclamation calling for an end to violence and dubbed the peak the Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Peace...