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That will depend on the resolution of the import-tariff dispute with the Indian government. In July an E.U. panel found the additional duty on imported wines and spirits a "blatant violation" of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, and with the U.S. also complaining, the WTO has launched its own investigation. A ruling may be more than a year away, but things may move more quickly now that Mallya too is an importer. The self-styled "King of Good Times" is a Member of Parliament as well...
...have been progressively reducing our import duties," says Shipra Biswas, a spokeswoman for India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry. "At the same time, there's the issue of reciprocal access to the E.U. for our whisky." Biswas insists the issues are unrelated, as has Rekhi, though he suggested to the delegates at the whisky conference that "it should be a win-win situation. You want to dismantle tariffs? Let's dismantle intellectual barriers...
...today’s afternoon exercises are (technically) “the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association,” don’t expect an open-forum “town meeting” out of New England’s Puritan past. On matters of import, “Analysis Grammatical, Logicall and Rhetoricall” is relegated to English-language newsprint...
...Import Export. Director Ulrich Seidl tells two unrelated stories - of Austrian men working in Ukraine, and of a young Ukrainian woman who comes to Austria - with the earthshaking message that men are bad and women put up with them. The guys spend their spare time degrading women they pick up in bars, making one strip, crawl on the floor and bark like a dog. Women pose naked before a camera, following the rude commands of Web cam masturbators. In a hospital for the aged, nurses perform perfunctory tasks for old droolers, whom Seidl photographs unpityingly. The humiliations - of the characters...
...their duties to students and tutors. Instead, if there is an overwhelming consensus among House residents that it is time for a change, University Hall should not hesitate to make one. Furthermore, when vetting prospective house masters, careful attention should be paid to how effectively candidates can perform the important social tasks that they must fulfill in order to give house life a more familial feel than dorm life at any other College—promoting a unique and positive House spirit and house life. Candidates’ eminence as professors should be of secondary import: there...