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...handouts Europe gives its farmers, refused.) "It's as bad as I've seen it in 46 years," says Brian McGuigan, an industry veteran and former managing director of McGuigan Simeon Wines, the nation's second largest wine firm. Viewed from Australia, the French measures seem timid and slow. Australia's 20 biggest winemakers account for 85% of the market, and they have reacted much faster to the crisis, cutting prices and taking the financial hit early by writing down the value of their stock. Some grape growers are pruning back vines or switching to citrus or almonds...
...black population drinking wine." Talk to some of the locals at the festival, and there are encouraging signs of change. Two years ago, Thami Xaba opened Soweto's first wine shop, the Morara Wines & Spirit Emporium. He reckons it's the wine industry that has been slow to recognize the potential of places like Soweto, not the other way around. "Drinking wine represents a lifestyle. It means you are affluent," he says. "I could never have opened the shop at a better time than now. The market is untapped. It's huge." South Africa's wine producers - most of whom...
...that all the tough talk, as is so often the case in Washington, will remain just talk. This year states have passed laws of varying strength banning the practice - California recently became the 15th one, although the bill won't take effect until January - but the feds have been slow to follow suit. In the absence of a national law, the five people connected to the HP case were indicted under California state fraud statutes, but their lawyers are expected to challenge whether these even cover pretexting; the statutes would have to be interpreted expansively...
...with a tiny black tent, that bears the burden of the discomfort. It would be more sincere for niqab-wearers to say that they accept the cost of refusing to compromise on the niqab; that it will be considered provocative by their non-Muslim fellow citizens, that it might slow their own assimilation into British society...
...fund future College projects as they arise. Meanwhile, the College should look for novel ways of fundraising in order to protect these sorts of programs. We believe, for example, that the College should continue raising money for student initiatives through alumni. Finally, it may be wise for FAS to slow its hiring blitz. The Faculty’s original goal, set in 2000, was to have about 700 members by 2010. It surpassed that goal several years early. While we have supported faculty growth in the past on the grounds that it would improve teaching and student-faculty contact...