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...malt whisky has enabled the market to grow from practically zero in the 1960s, when almost all malt whisky was sold to the big blenders, to one worth $373.5 million in sales last year. "Malt whisky," says Good, "seems to attract younger, more upscale drinkers - and they also deliver wider profit margins. It's a winning combination." Although malt whisky currently represents only 5.9% of total bottled Scotch whisky sales, Good predicts its share will climb even in markets like the U.S. and Japan, where overall whisky sales have declined steadily over the past decade. "Malts and premium brands...
...Green Goddesses - the government said the union must take or leave its final offer: an 11% hike over two years that would take the average fireman's annual salary to €37,500. The FBU is asking for 40%, but hinted it would accept 16%. Determined to forestall a wider public services walkout, ministers warned that future FBU strikes might be outlawed. "We have bent over backward to be fair," Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott told the House of Commons. "We have been met with action that is wrong ... and puts lives at risk." But the very people whose lives...
...Kassel, Germany, which launched him into the spotlight. In 1998, filmmaker Reinhard Wulf and art historian Maria Anna Tappeiner filmed Drawing the Passing, a documentary on Kentridge’s creation of Stereoscope, the eighth film in the Soho Eckstein series. This documentary helped bring his work to wider audiences. Stereoscope premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in April 1999, was shown at the 48th Venice Biennalle and went on to earn the Carnegie Medal at the Carnegie International 1999/2000...
...Hussein in 2002. His attempts at diplomatic rapprochement with Saudi Arabia and other moderate Arab states, and recent domestic initiatives such as his mass amnesty for Iraqi prisoners suggest he may be planning to further muddy the waters with more gestures of magnanimity toward his own people and the wider Arab world. But that's a risky business for a man who rules by fear. When he threw open the prisons last month, thousands of Iraqis celebrated their reunions with long-lost loved ones. But scores of others, whose relatives had simply disappeared, were moved to mount unprecedented acts...
According to that measure, less than four percent of Harvard undergraduates live below the poverty line as compared to nearly 12 percent of all Americans. The gulf is much wider in what one might call the lower-middle class. While more than 40 percent of families nationwide earn under $40,000, fewer than 10 percent of Harvard students come from such families...