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...What happened to those four vessels due for Iran? Like any good salesman, Washington simply found a different customer. It spruced them up and, years later, has begun delivering them to a new buyer: Taiwan...
Most dramatic of all is the perilous situation in Australia. Its output doubled in a decade, and the country is flooded with unsold wine. And unlike France, which pays for unsold wine to be distilled into industrial alcohol, Australia has no government-subsidized buyer to bail wineries out. Mark McKenzie, executive director of the wine-grape growers trade group, says incomes for some growers have fallen 60% in the past two years. "It's as bad as I've seen it in 46 years," says Brian McGuigan, an industry veteran and founder of McGuigan Simeon Wines, the nation's second...
...years emissions-cap guidelines for the second phase of a federal program to reduce nitrogen oxide by 2010. "I'm worried I'm not being an effective communicator here," he says in frustration during an interview at the company's Dallas headquarters. Although it's the state's biggest buyer of renewable capacity, TXU is now heavily reliant on natural gas, which is subject to wide price swings. A cheaper coal supply would bring down the price of electricity, McCall says, eventually saving customers $1.7 billion a year...
...game more relevant than ever. (HGTV has practically become a financial channel, with shows like Designed to Sell, Buy Me and My House Is Worth What?) We've moved from a manufacturing to a service economy, and the white-collar icons--bye, wheelbarrow, hello, laptop--seem aimed at the buyer willing to shell out $29.99 ($10 or so more than the old edition...
...beauty-world veteran who has worked at Guerlain, Kiehl's and Vivienne Westwood, where he helped launch the designer's fragrance Libertine got his most valuable training from the esteemed beautician Joëlle Ciocco, who taught him about skin. The fashion flock got to know him as the beauty buyer for the trendy Paris boutique Colette, where he developed a beauty corner into a 38-line-strong department...