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...hasn't happened. "The feeding frenzy about China is not reflected in the size of the market," says Ian Ford, a wine importer in China. Wine sales in China are rising, but they are still tiny; Chinese consumption is a minute 0.3 L per head per year, one-tenth the Japanese level, and 90% is locally made. So far there is almost nothing in between those rough concoctions and the big-name wines destined for the élite. And the market is both narrow and extremely volatile: imports rose sharply in the second half of the 1990s, only to crash...
...contribution our elderly make to this trend. We used to keep our grandparents at home, in the spare room, but now they prefer the weather in Florida and the 24-hour care of retirement homes. When one elderly spouse outlives the other, America gets another "single-person household." There are now 10.5 million people, over age 65, living alone - one-tenth of all households. Thus, the 55 million married households become a smaller part of the whole...
...roughly 45 sentences in the four pages that were released (around one-tenth of the whole document), most of them make points that have been repeatedly made by the President in his speeches. The White House communications elves underscored that by issuing the latest in a series of fact sheets titled with a hat tip to Paul Harvey: "The Rest of the Story: The NIE Reflects Previous Statements About The War On Terror...
...close-penned bull, wedge one hand under the rope around its chest, an`d wait for the ring-ward side of the pen to be pulled open. But only 11 will ride the bull, and only four will know the glory of doing it twice. The rest will-in the time it takes several hundred steak-sandwich-chomping onlookers to gasp-be tossed in the air, flung to the ground and, if they're lucky, escape being trampled by a "big, high-horned buckin' bull" that, as the announcer booms, "has about one-tenth the power of a Mack truck...
...factory. While companies happily tapped India for its well-trained and low-cost IT-engineering talent, they've placed their bets on China as a manufacturing center. Although exports of manufactured goods from India grew 20% to approximately $70 billion in its last fiscal year, that's just one-tenth of the $700 billion China exported in 2005. Manufacturing accounts for only about 16% of India's GDP. In China, its share is more than twice as large...