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...markets, Villa Banfi is developing wines that are more upscale than Riunite. Directing that effort is Chief Oenologist Ezio Rivella, 50, the first Italian ever elected to head the Union Internationale des Oenologues in Paris. Rivella has helped develop new wine-production techniques that do not require additives like sulfur dioxide and allow white wine to be shipped abroad without alteration of its taste or color...
...refurbish EPA's standing, Ruckelshaus, who took over the agency last March, is urging the Reagan Administration to get quickly behind a new policy to control acid rain. Previously Reaganites have supported only "more study" of the subject. But Ruckelshaus has recommended a plan to reduce sulfur emissions by 4 million to 5 million tons a year, mainly in the Northeast. To comply with this proposal would cost between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion...
...traders in the world. Acquaintances estimate his personal fortune at up to $1 billion. After starting his own firm in 1974 with about $5 million in seed money, Rich built a group of companies that last year traded some $10 billion worth of such commodities as oil, gold, aluminum, sulfur and sugar...
More recently, the Parthenon has suffered from an eye-stinging yellow smog that envelops Athens for most of the year. Called the nefos (literally, cloud), it is composed mainly of sulfur dioxide, a waste product given off when petroleum is burned in autos, factories and residential furnaces. As rain and dew mix with the SO2, they form a weak sulfuric acid that turns marble into crumbling plaster...
...calling 30 years ago as a metals trader after dropping out of New York University. The Swiss-based commodities firm he founded in 1974, Marc Rich & Co. AG, is now one of the largest in the world, trading an annual volume of $10 billion worth of oil, gold, aluminum, sulfur and sugar, among other things. Rich's personal fortune is estimated at more than $100 million. "Everybody is amazed at his commercial success," says Oil-Industry Consultant Walter Levy, "without quite knowing...