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Falling oil prices allow consumers to spend money they otherwise would have sent to Saudi Arabia. Crude peaked at $37.82 per bbl. in March and had tumbled to $27.35 by last week. Gasoline prices won't come down fast, but prices at the pump are already falling. The drop in oil spending will put an additional $337 in the pockets of the average household by the end of 2004, according to one estimate...
...importers told me it's become politically incorrect to promote French wines." Since France exports ?1.71 billion in wine and spirits to the U.S. every year - France's most lucrative sector after automotive products and aeronautics - the plummeting sales are no laughing matter. (There has been no drop in sales for champagne or cognac, which aren't as prone to replacement by New World competitors.) No wonder the managing board of the Federation of Wine and Spirits Exporters decided that its president, Patrick Ricard, would write a discreet letter to Chirac this week. "We don't want...
...murder and rape as depicted in the fictional film. In a scene set during the shooting of the internal film, Armenian and Turkish actors are forced to confront the history that they either never learned or learned to suppress. "[Canada] is a new country, so let's just drop the f___ing history," Turkish actor Ali (Elias Koteas) tells Raffi...
...congressional decision obliged TSA to drop its opposition and design a training program. Its technical aspects, including marksmanship and non-lethal self-defense, were excellent, pilots concurred. But after the 48 flyers - selected from a list of volunteers to bring diversity of gender, type of aircraft, corporation, age and experience - were two days into their training, they got into a combative exchange with a TSA lawyer, sharply questioning some of the rules he was laying out and at one point laughing at his response. That brought a reprimand from a TSA psychologist, and then from the TSA official...
...said that he began surfing as a child when his parents would drop him off at the beach at Santa Cruz for the summer...