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...retail price of a standard (750- ml) bottle of wine. Pessimists in the industry predict that the increase could reduce wine consumption by 12% and lead to the loss of 7,000 jobs. The tax hike comes at a time when many growers are also worried about phylloxera, a mite-size plant louse that is gnawing away at vines, primarily in Napa and Sonoma counties. An estimated 250 acres have been affected so far, and replanting with new phylloxera-resistant vines may cost upwards of $250 million in Napa Valley alone...
First benzene, then the feds nixed the "naturally sparkling" claim. Now, as the drink reappears, New York State finds some batches a mite too salty for a "low sodium" label. Talk about being blown out of the water...
That may make the plan "just a mite harsh" in the words of Debbie M. Gurner '91, who added that the scheme is "not out of the question...
...debate whether perestroika in the Soviet Union will collapse into economic chaos and archaic nationalism, without any suggestion that we ought to do something about it. Meanwhile Senator Robert Dole wins acclaim by suggesting that what little aid we give to Eastern Europe ought to come out of our mite of aid to the rest of the world...
QUEEN OF HEARTS. On a next-to-nothing budget, this criminally pleasurable panorama depicts a teeming gallery of Italians in postwar London. Funny, ambitious and a mite too long, Queen of Hearts laces pearls on a shoestring...