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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 quickly, 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. Even so, Sam Tolley, chief executive of the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation, the government body that oversees the wine industry, reckons it will take at least an additional two years before supply and demand get back in line...
...proposal until the spring deadline, if at all. “Our informal sense is that there is considerable potential demand for a secondary field in economics, but we want to make sure we make an informed and responsible decision,” Professor of Economics James H. Stock wrote in an e-mail. The EPC, which has already met twice this semester to discuss secondary field proposals, expects to post the first approved secondary fields to secondaryfields.fas.harvard.edu soon after Nov. 6. The EPC has discussed eight of the submitted proposals thus far, all of which require some follow...
...pollution control and cleaning equipment to those nasty coal-fired power plants. Robinson also maintains stakes in the healthy-living sector, owning companies like Whole Foods Market and even the controversial HerbaLife, a maker of nutrition and weight-loss products. He's not averse to financial, biotech or telecom stocks either, stretching the notion of eco-friendly. Last year he made a killing off a telecom stock, Redback. "They're helping networks to move data faster, reducing the use of paper," he says. By that measure, though, almost any Internet firm would pass muster...
...Automakers are also evaluating carbon fiber as a substitute for some metals to improve fuel economy, and next-generation hybrids and fuel- cell vehicles should contain more of the material. Except for the Japanese, "all the auto companies are using or testing carbon fiber with Zoltek," Robinson says. The stock is up more than 185% this year...
APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD Virginia Senator George Allen, the political gag gift that keeps on giving, is in the news again. This time it's over his alleged failure to disclose stock-option grants and other transactions in companies like Xybernaut, maker of, in the A.P.'s words, "a computer people can wear on their heads." Just what Allen needs: Dunce...