Word: primes
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...financed their spiritual good works by producing California brandy and table wines. Last week, after months of soul searching, the Brothers announced that bottled spirits no longer fit into their plans. The company will sell its $100 million-a-year wine-and-brandy business and 1,160 acres of prime vineyards to Heublein, a subsidiary of London-based Grand Metropolitan, for an undisclosed amount, perhaps as much as $150 million. Heublein, which owns California's Inglenook vineyard but has no major brandy label of its own, would thus become the largest vintner (1,940 acres) in the Napa Valley...
MASTERPIECES OF IMPRESSIONISM AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM: THE ANNENBERG COLLECTION, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fifty prime paintings by artists from Van Gogh and Cezanne through Gauguin and Braque, acquired over the past four decades by publisher Walter Annenberg and his wife. Through Sept...
...experts, most of whom had expected the dollar to drift lower this year. Their best explanation: a combination of high U.S. interest rates, which make the dollar attractive to foreign investors, and the political woes of West Germany and Japan. The Japanese have yet to pick a successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who announced his resignation in April over a stock scandal; in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrat Union has lost two important local elections this year. Moreover, even though the yield on such securities as ten-year U.S. Treasury bonds has slipped from 9.2% earlier...
...Although Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ridiculed the announcement as "unilateralism in a different wrapping," she stood to lose a valuable advantage: an opposition wedded to policies that guaranteed its remaining in opposition. As Tony Blair, 36, Labor's spokesman on energy and one of its rising stars, emphasized, "The changes simply had to come. We couldn't continue to live in the past...
Party officials cited Kadar's poor health as the reason for his removal, but some Western and Hungarian political analysts speculate that the government wanted him out of the way before it rehabilitated the reputation of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary at the time of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Kadar is said to have given evidence at the trial of Nagy, who was hanged for treason. Others say that the party, by breaking with "Kadarism," wished to underline its pro-reform stance...