Word: leal
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...Washington. Gourmet restaurants are taking notice. Labels like Santa Teresa's 1796--a top Hamilton pick for its "honey smooth" finish--from Venezuela are after-dinner favorites at Cacao in Miami. "It reminds me of the global market shift to New World wines," says Cacao's chef-owner, Edgar Leal, who has begun hosting aged-rum tastings. "The same is happening with digestifs...
...parents were less enamored when, two years later, their son insisted on taking classes at the local Bullfighting School of Arles. "They still don't like it," he confesses. Some 20 aspiring matadors enter the school in Arles each year. Few emerge successful. But Savalli's instructor, Paco Leal, saw something in the boy that set him apart. "Mehdi had a lot of ambition," says Leal. "And with ambition you can overcome all kinds of other things." Today, Savalli is one of the highest-ranked novilleros (apprentice bullfighters) in Spain. Last year, he received the grisly honor of 52 ears...
...some, the O'Shaughnessy Dam is a monument to the skills of the Irish-American engineer who built it. Elegant is the word that Susan Leal, general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, uses to describe the curved wedge of rock and concrete that soars 300 ft. above the floor of the Hetch Hetchy Valley. But to others, the dam, constructed nearly a century ago inside the western boundary of Yosemite National Park, is a mocking tombstone to a landscape whose haunting beauty has lain for too long beneath 100 billion gallons of water...
...power generated by that water's downhill rush supplies electricity to such vital operations as San Francisco's schools, municipal-transit system and international airport. If the dam were removed, that water and power would have to be replaced somehow, which is why the Public Utility Commission's Leal considers the idea "just plain goofy...
...seven-year period. Increased competition could eventually make businesses stronger by encouraging them to be more efficient and innovative. In addition, a freer exchange of products and ideas with the rest of Europe will help Spain and Portugal gear up their lagging economies for the 21st century. Said Leal: "For four centuries we have looked at our problems in a very inward way, and now we will be forced to look outward...