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These duties, while important for the office, should not be the main focus of the job, according...
Driving those changes is a new attitude among Bordeaux's main customers, French supermarkets. They're driving an increasingly hard bargain because per capita wine consumption in France has halved since the 1960s and wine is no longer a staple with meals, being supplanted by soda and water. It didn't help that Bordeaux made a huge strategic mistake by stepping up plantings in the late 1990s--a move that increased production and exacerbated the already growing pressure on prices. As a result, the balance of power has shifted. "Until 2001, the mentality of producers was to say, 'I make...
...appellations that are now marketed. Five big areas--Côtes de Blaye, Côtes de Bourg, Côtes de Castillon, Côtes de Francs and Côtes de Bordeaux--are planning to combine into a single, expanded Côtes de Bordeaux label. And the Interprofessional Bordeaux Wine Council, the main industry group, recently scrapped 1990s regulations that forbade vintners from making vin ordinaire from their lesser grapes. Get ready for Vin de Pays de l'Atlantique. This year marks the first harvest for it, and 65 winemakers have already signed...
...Other schemes have been more controversial: Last August, Caracas Mayor Juan Barreto declared that he planned to seize the city's two main golf courses, which he said were the preserve of the rich, and use the land to build homes for as many as 50,000 people. "This is a first step towards the democratization of land," Barreto told state television. "It's to give a new social sense to the city, so it can be enjoyed by everyone and not be a privatized city under a neo-liberal concept...
...Olmert's management of the Lebanon War continues to be intensely criticized. The main plank of his election campaign - the promise to withdraw roughly one third of West Bank settlers and the consolidation of the rest behind an expanded security barrier - has been put in the deep freeze by the crises in Lebanon and Gaza. Questions have arisen about the propriety of a real estate deal he made years ago. And he's generating further controversy by seeking to bolster his shaky ruling coalition through courting a far-right political faction leader, Avigdor Lieberman, who has called for the forced...