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...year - rebound soon. Export volume for the first eight months of 2002 is down 6.5% from last year and Alan Gray, whisky analyst for ING Financial Markets, is predicting volume growth of only 1.8% per annum over the next five years as the industry grapples with volatile economies and stiff competition from other spirits. Although recurrent predictions that Scotch would be washed away by a tidal wave of vodka and other trendy tipples have clearly proved premature, the threat remains. Can whisky fight back? It seems to be limbering up. Last year's partition of the Seagram drinks empire...
...coordinates police investigations into organized crime, Europol, is setting up a new center to track criminals over the Internet. The U.K. has its own high-tech crime unit, as do Italy, Spain and Sweden. Police units, however, are only as effective as a country's laws. Italy's are stiff: up to four years in prison and a $15,000 fine for anyone caught selling, distributing, producing and importing illegal copyright-protected goods, plus a second system of even heftier fines. This year, Italian police have arrested 1,329 people for music-copyright violation alone, says Luca Vespignani, a music...
...stiff competition along the blueline—with seven men competing for six playing slots—should motivate all the defensemen. In addition to Welch, juniors Kenny Smith, Blair Barlow and Dave McCulloch, and sophomore Ryan Lannon will share the mantle of leadership...
This weekend’s Hoyt Trophy Regatta, hosted by Brown on the Providence River, featured two Crimson boats, which combined for fourth place against stiff competition...
...price of modernization as a newly-moneyed citizenry moves up to motorized transportation. But there's a strange twist to this familiar developing country saga. The government has started to treat motorcycles like dangerous drugs. It wants to curtail the blacktop carnage by cutting off the supply?imposing stiff import quotas on motorcycle manufacturers operating in the communist country...