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...boom of a hunter's single shotgun blast, the crack of steel on steel as a movie hero slams home a magazine. But in an airy second-floor studio here at the headquarters of the world's oldest firearms manufacturer, in the iron-rich alpine foothills of Gardone Val Trompia, Italy, there's another, more delicate sound: the staccato tapping of engravers adding the tiny finishing touches to the company's custom-made shotguns. And we mean custom: buyers can specify size, shape, materials and just about any engraved design at prices that range from...
...Clos du Val, a Napa winery set up by Frenchman Bernard Portet in 1972 and best known for its Cabernet Sauvignon, hired a new executive team last year to reposition its brand further upmarket. It will soon sell its top Cabernet at $62 a bottle, up from $55. Several of its other wines will also have price increases. The wine labels will be redesigned, but the wine inside will remain the same. "By not raising our prices in the 1990s, we fell behind in positioning and recognition," says David Campbell...
...ACTOR Val Kilmer...
...help pay for the planes; a separate financing company that would acquire the planes and lease them to Sabena was supposed to be set up jointly by the two companies, together with Airbus. A side agreement was drafted, but Swissair never signed it - and the Sabena board never checked. Valère Croes, the board chairman at the time, testified he didn't even know of the existence of the side agreement, let alone that the Swiss hadn't signed it. The result: when Sabena's financial crisis boiled over, Swissair argued it wasn't obliged to help. There were...
...that Eastern and Central Europeans will find their homecoming a rude awakening: "I don't believe the fairy tales about a community of loving European states. It's a power struggle, where each country tries to maximize its gains." In the European Convention now meeting under the leadership of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, delegates from around Europe, including the candidate countries, are exploring how to overhaul the E.U. to make it closer to voters and more effective. Its result, believes Liberal M.E.P. Andrew Duff, will be "a transfer of sovereignty" to the E.U.'s central institutions - which unless...