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...That?s why the prospect of a successful war in Iraq - one that?s at least as short and as easy as the first Gulf War, and ousts Saddam besides - has economists thinking catalyst. ?A war will definitely have a cleansing effect,? Faucher says. ?Once it?s over - and presumably then we?ll get a stimulus package of some kind - oil prices will come down, and businesses will start investing again. By the second half of the year, assuming we don?t get bogged down in a six- or nine-month war, a recovery should be really taking hold...
...Research Institute of Fisheries, disputes reports of the beluga's demise. "The 90% depletion figure is a gross exaggeration on the part of the nervous media," he says. Still, the Russians have worked hard to sustain the remaining population with hatcheries and export quotas. Banning imports "would be the catalyst for a new round of poaching and illegal trade," says Armen Petrossian, head of the International Caviar Importers Association. In the U.S., the demand for beluga caviar has led not just to illegal imports of what some call black gold but also to a rash of false labeling. Arkady Panchernikov...
...Research Institute of Fisheries, disputes reports of the beluga's demise. "The 90% depletion figure is a gross exaggeration on the part of the nervous media," he says. Still, the Russians have worked hard to sustain the remaining population with hatcheries and export quotas. Banning imports "would be the catalyst for a new round of poaching and illegal trade," says Armen Petrossian, head of the International Caviar Importers Association. Tariffs collected from the legal trade pay for the hatcheries that produce 97% of beluga swimming in the Caspian. Without revenues from the legal trade, says Petrossian, there would...
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...seduced by arguments that war is easy, that war is a unique catalyst of change,” he said...