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...million for a membership. Today a membership costs about $22,500. In the past three years nearly 200 of Japan's 2,400 golf courses have declared bankruptcy, according to Teikoku Databank, a credit-research agency. "Goldman is buying these distressed properties at a great discount," says Joel Gomberg, an analyst at William Blair & Co. "There's great value potential here; it's a savvy move." Among Accordia's tactics to lure people to the game--which many Japanese have played within strict guidelines--loosening dress codes and letting players drive golf carts on the grass...
...Frescobaldi--best known for its Tuscan red wines, such as Nipozzano Chianti Rufina--which has acquired property in Friuli to make Sauvignon, Pinot Grigio and Ribolla Gialla white wines. "The Italians have figured it out--how to create tastes that suit the American palate," says John Fredrickson of Gomberg, Fredrickson & Associates, a wine-industry consultancy in San Francisco. In the U.S. market, Italian Pinot Grigios represent the largest import category. At the higher end of the market, the new category of Super Tuscans--such as Tignanello and Sassicaia--are commanding prices of $80 a bottle...
Sony based its defense on the argument that copyright law permits home recording and that the "privacies of life" must be protected from government intrusion. In the words of the company's general counsel, Ira Gomberg, "A consumer has the right to do what he wants in his own home. If he wants to watch the 6 o'clock news at 10 o'clock, he has that right." That was Judge Ferguson's view too. "There is no way, nor should there be," he said, "for plaintiffs to limit the availability of alternatives to television viewing...
...feat of poise. The next day, 500 violinists came for Silverstein's master class, some from hundreds of miles away. Only the tuba (ten) and the harp (20) drew fewer than 50 people. In all the studios the air was thick with concentration. Oboist Ralph Gomberg counseled one jittery student: "You don't hear the notes if you play it too fast." Flutist Senwick Smith used one phrase in a piece called The Flute of Pan to try to loose some spontaneity in his cautious players. "Do you know who Pan is?" he asked. They...
...bottle or the finesse of a Chateau Lafite Rothschild '61 (a mere $135). Yet the new California wines now arriving on the market are the best available in quantity. "For the first time in this or any other country," says a California wine-industry consultant, Louis R. Gomberg, "there is going to be a tremendous abundance of high-quality grapes. The consumer will harvest a wine-crop bounty the like of which has never before been seen...