Word: fines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real test, of course, is in the tasting, and here the Aussies are doing just fine. Anthony Dias Blue, a San Francisco-based wine-and-food writer who was a judge at last year's Qantas Wine Cup, an annual taste-off of U.S. and Australian varietals, says, "I expected to lose in the Rieslings, Sauvignon Blancs and sparkling wines, but I never in a million years thought we would lose in Chardonnays and Cabernets." Down Under wines, Blue concludes, "are going to be accepted on a par with California. They've gotten their foothold...
...splendidly berserk satirizing American males, obsessed with their toys, and American females, driven to homicidal embrace. In Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, three women murder their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner, who is besotted, then drowned, by all three. Greenaway's pristine mannerism makes a fine beguilement of this dark, wet comedy...
...economists examined the fine print of the March trade report, they discovered yet another discouraging fact: the monthly deficit with Japan stayed steady at $4.5 billion. Since that represents nearly half the total U.S. deficit, even the most optimistic Administration official would have to admit that the trade imbalance is likely to remain a stubborn problem for years to come...
Gorbachev seemed equally committed. Receiving Shultz in Moscow, he said the Washington finesse on SDI was still fine with him. Shultz came home optimistic, telling colleagues that he was sure the Soviets would not let the SDI issue get in the way of an agreement...
...less interesting than the question of what motivates all of them to keep on accumulating, legally or otherwise. A central assumption of supply-side economics -- the dominant economic theology of the past decade, which produced large tax-rate cuts for the wealthy -- is that people are % motivated by rather fine calculations about the reward for further effort. Supply-siders are the chiropractors of capitalism, believing that small manipulations of the incentive structure can produce enormous changes in economic behavior. That may be true for those of us who have some use -- if not real need -- for everything we earn...