Word: stranglehold
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...number of wineries producing world-class Pinot Noir. The silt-loam soils of New Zealand yield a Pinot Noir somewhere between the robust Australian reds beloved of influential American critic Robert Parker and the more complex Bordeaux wines. Some Kiwi wineries have even taken on the Australian stranglehold on Shiraz, or Syrah as it's sometimes called. In the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand's North Island, Craggy Range has produced some wonderful Merlots and Syrahs that were launched in the U.S. to much acclaim last year. On the South Island, other wineries are winning plaudits for their...
...early nerves were an indication of the huge importance of the matchup, with the Quakers trying to put a stranglehold on the Ivy League while Harvard battled to avoid its third loss...
...important chink in the Old Guard's armor, says Peter Sealey, a professor of technology and marketing at the University of California, Berkeley. "Slowly but surely, technology is coming into play in the real estate market," he says. "As it does, brokers will lose their stranglehold on the process. Commissions ultimately should be cut in half...
...basset hound Hoover in attendance. Parker says it's hardly his fault that his judgments have become the gold standard for wines across the world; he sees himself - with some justice, as Nossiter acknowledges - as a consumer advocate whose call-'em-as-I-see-'em sensibility broke the stranglehold of befuddled aristocrats in the Bordeaux region. But Nossiter suggests that with more and more vintners striving for the bouquet that Parker likes - and that consultants like Rolland can engineer - enough is enough. "One codified, restrictive system is being replaced with another," he says. Nossiter, who studied ancient Greek...
Schindel wasted little time vindicating his new coach, however, solidifying his stranglehold on the starting role in Harvard’s season opening win against Holy Cross, contested amid the remnants of Hurricane Ivan...