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...past three years, GE's wind business, snapped up from Enron for $358 million, has grown into a $2 billion enterprise, with sales up 300%. GE has been rolling out a new generation of supersized turbines for offshore wind farms, the latest one off the coast of Ireland, and announced its third contract to supply smaller windmills to mainland China--where energy demand is soaring and the government aims to spend $85 billion on pollution controls, especially in smog-choked cities like Beijing, site of the 2008 Olympics. Immelt also intends to capitalize on coal-gasification technology purchased last year...
...from Europe's sugar industry, which accounts for 13% of world production. Shares in Britain's Tate & Lyle tumbled after it warned that profits could be reduced by more than $150 million over the next two years. Other losers are the least efficient E.U. sugar growers, mainly in Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal, as well as 18 countries in the Caribbean that have a duty-free deal with the E.U. that allows them to sell raw sugar at fixed prices. "This is a devastating proposal that must be fought tooth and nail," said Ian McDonald, chief executive of the Sugar...
...IRELAND Breaking Up May Be Easier...
...countries of Western Europe, only Ireland, which is 95% Roman Catholic, and tiny Malta still ban divorce. That could soon change, at least in Ireland. Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald last week announced plans for a summer referendum on whether to amend the constitution to permit couples to end their marriages legally. If voters approve, the government will seek legislation allowing husbands and wives to divorce after five years of separation...
...referendum is overwhelmingly opposed by Ireland's Catholic hierarchy. But a poll taken in February by the Market Research Bureau of Ireland found that 77% of those surveyed favored divorce in some circumstances. FRANCE A Teenager for All Seasons...