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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Really Owns That Winery? | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...price of modernization as a newly-moneyed citizenry moves up to motorized transportation. But there's a strange twist to this familiar developing country saga. The government has started to treat motorcycles like dangerous drugs. It wants to curtail the blacktop carnage by cutting off the supply?imposing stiff import quotas on motorcycle manufacturers operating in the communist country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under the Wheels | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...crats are using trade rules as an air bag. The country is not directly restricting motorcycle production. It is doing so indirectly, by limiting the flow of parts that go into bikes. In September, the government announced it was slashing the number of "assembly kits" manufacturers are allowed to import this year from 2.5 million down to 1.5 million?effectively cutting the motorcycle output of Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki by some 40% at a time when they are already feeling pressure from cheaper Chinese-made bikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under the Wheels | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...about possible chaos in Iraq after a U.S. invasion. (The Administration is considering a broad military occupation of Iraq much like the U.S. Army's presence in Japan after World War II.) But State Department intelligence officials remain unconvinced that high-strength aluminum tubes Baghdad has been trying to import are meant to be used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons, as the CIA claims. The tubes, they argue, could just as easily be used to manufacture conventional arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics and the CIA | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...folks who practice resume deflation--the price of regaining political virginity. Bowles doesn't trumpet his presidential service, even though he won bipartisan praise for getting a balanced budget and steadying the ship of state during Monicagate. The closest he has come to playing the inside game was to import former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, purified as she once toured North Carolina with Helms. While it might help with African-American voters, Bowles says he won't be hosting his ex-boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2002: Stealth Warriors from Washington | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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