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...late 1980s, they responded by beefing up their exports, hammering the "premium" theme and buying up other breweries. German brewers, by contrast, were protected by the beer purity laws - which lost their teeth when the European Court declared them protectionist in 1987, but still act as a seal of approval - and ensconced in family and village tradition. They responded by lowering prices to stimulate demand, cutting back production and staying resolutely local. Thus, while a country like the Netherlands exports more than half its production, Germany exports just over 11%. That leaves German brewers not only too small to dominate...
...vessels, each carrying about 100 passengers. Other trips leave from Christchurch, New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania; and South Africa's Cape Town. All offer a beguiling array of experiences from close-up views of mothballed whaling stations to courtesy calls at scientific ghost towns inhabited by haggard meteorologists and bearded seal watchers. Even more spectacular are vistas of primordial glaciers?vertiginous, 2,000-meter mountains and icy bays teeming with whales and penguins. It doesn't get more pristine or elemental than this...
These fathers try to seal the deal on their invented Montague-and-Capulet setup by hiring the bandit El Gallo (Marty Dinn ’03) and his swashbuckling, scene-stealing cohorts Henry and Mortimar (Thomas Odell ’05 and Neil G. Ellingson ’05). El Gallo and associates stage the rape of Luisa and her rescue by Matt. As planned, when Matt saves his damsel in distress, the two fall more deeply in love, and the fathers find themselves with an opportunity to end their public feuding—for who could hate the father...
...country's financial future. Teams in humvees and low-flying helicopters rolled into dozens of towns in search of arms caches; riverine squads on inflatable boats cleared mines and other vessels from Umm Qasr harbor; and with help from the Marines, Army Rangers and some locals, a SEAL team freed Private Jessica Lynch from a Nasiriyah hospital...
...Boulder, Colo.--Coupounas tried to sell military purchasers on his company's lightweight tents, backpacks and sweat-wicking T shirts. But even after calling evaluators at the Army's gear-testing center in Natick, Mass., meeting with sales reps who hawk wares to the military and calling Navy SEAL officers directly, he had booked just a handful of individual sales to a fighter here and there...