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...Canandaigua winery. The claim rings true, for Cisco's alcohol content is 20%, almost twice that of most wines and four times that of wine coolers. A growing number of health and consumer groups are asking Canandaigua to recall all bottles until the packaging and marketing are revamped. Critics contend that Cisco's screw-top bottles, fruit flavors and availability in many convenience stores create the impression that the product is akin to wine coolers. Canandaigua insists that customers know Cisco is different from a wine cooler because it is more expensive and is sold in individual bottles rather than...
...kingdom, subjects petition the royals for favors; they might, for example, ask for money to send a sick relative abroad for medical treatment or for the mediation of a land dispute. In a complex and modern society, a handful of senior princes, no matter how conscientious, cannot possibly contend with the myriad demands of their subjects. Nonetheless, even the kingdom's small knot of reformists do not want to depose the House of Saud. "The royal family is important for the stability of the country," says a liberal intellectual. "But we do want a parliament...
Saddam's aggression has given new ammunition to skeptics who contend that, Soviet threat or no Soviet threat, the U.S. needs every high-tech weapon system it can develop. The Pentagon budget will still be cut, but perhaps by as little as $10 billion, obliterating any chance that a substantial peace dividend will help relieve pressure on the government deficit. "Every politician will cite the gulf crisis as a justification for his favorite weapon," says Lawrence Korb, a former Pentagon official now at the Brookings Institution in Washington. For example, Senator Robert Dole has already argued that Iraq's move...
...post-Vietnam era, reporters covering the gulf crisis must contend with a long list of Pentagon rules...
...intelligent filmmaker whenever he remains behind the camera, maintains that films about blacks should be directed by blacks (what does this mean for The Bear, one wonders, or for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?). Lee in turn becomes an irresistible target for charges of anti-Semitism. And others contend that Marion Barry is being hounded because he is black, as if to suggest that he be excused because he is black...