Word: lessing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this is available at excellent prices, frequently no more (and sometimes less) than famous-label champagnes. Says Robert Rogness, general manager of Wine Expo in Santa Monica, Calif., which sells more than 200 grower champagnes: "The best champagnes often cost much less than the most famous champagnes because the price of fame is so high...
...Pierre Gimonnet Brut 1995 Cuvee Gastronome. Chardonnay; $35. Lemon, orange and mango; spicy and exotic, with slightly less mousse than usual, which makes it especially good with food...
...Websites selling padded underwear were flooded with traffic following a report that elderly people are 84% less likely to break a hip in a fall if they wear...
...optimistic. Despite the capacity strains, they don't think the oil pinch will get anywhere near so bad. Indeed, in the absence of a Middle East war or some other unforeseen calamity, the price of crude is expected to drift down after the winter peak-demand period, perhaps to less than $30 per bbl. by spring and even into the low-$20 range by the end of 2001. Says Yergin, one of the country's foremost experts on the energy supply: "We should see the fundamentals of supply and demand reassert themselves over the tension that has been driving...
Polls show that Netanyahu would have trounced Barak. But Israeli election law mandates that in a special election, only members of the Knesset can run. That gives hope to Barak, who has a much better chance of beating the old warhorse Sharon. The short election cycle also makes it less likely that the rebellious left of Barak's Labor Party will oust him in favor of one of his critics, such as Knesset speaker Avraham Burg. "It's the only way for Barak to survive, because he knocks Netanyahu out," says Reuven Chazan, a Hebrew University political scientist...