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...been nibbling around the German market for more than a decade. While the big get bigger, the small will get smaller. "Microbreweries, meaning small operations generating less than 500,000 liters per year, and especially the new generation of brew-pubs, are still a healthy business in Germany," says Ralf Knabe, an analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. "They account for most of Germany's breweries in number terms and can probably maintain their independence, but they generate just 2% of the volume." The real crunch is on mid-sized breweries like Sailer's. They got a temporary reprieve this year...
...scheduled for April 21. Schill claims the Law and Order Offensive has 20% support there, but opinion polls give it just 2% of the vote. A party needs 5% to earn a place in the state legislature. "Schill's party is like a collection point for dissatisfied people," says Ralf Tils, a political scientist at the University of Lüneburg. "At the moment there's a potential for a far-right protest party. But Schill can't control it in all of Germany." In addition to Saxony-Anhalt, Schill's party is putting up a slate of candidates...
...aura of super-confidence that gives him an edge in the psychological battle over rivals. In a sport filled with monstrous egos, there are few that can match Schumacher's. One driver who should know how to handle him is his younger brother Ralf, who drives for Williams. The Williams car has not been consistent enough this season to see many head-to-head battles between the two, but next year could be different. Willi Weber, manager of both Schumachers, looks forward to that prospect. "It's not important if Michael is fighting against [McLaren driver] Mika Hakkinen...
...Ralf Schumann. A mild-tempered and obviously sharp-eyed man of 38, he was born in the former East Germany, where he took up pistol shooting at age 15. The pistol has since become an extension of his right arm, and rapid-fire shooting at 25 m his life. He fires 20,000 shots a year--all in training for a competition that lasts no longer than...
...decks of Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore, ruled by the fair and just Captain Corcoran. Aboard, there is, save for that towards the reviled presence of Dick Deadeye, little animosity. There is tension to be sure, because Corcoran's daughter Josephine is in love with a seaman, Ralf Rackstraw, but she is betrothed instead to a much, much older man, Admiral of the Queen's Navy, Sir Joseph Porter. The Captain himself is in love with dear little Buttercup, but cannot marry her because she is a poorly Bumboat woman, of a lower class than he. So, these characters...