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...advantage of the TGV is that it is compatible with existing tracks and station facilities; it moves to high speed only on specially built lines outside the towns. The TGV program achieved an American breakthrough when the Texas high-speed-rail authority chose the French system over a German competitor for a 600-mile high-speed route linking Dallas with Houston and San Antonio -- a contract worth $5.8 billion on completion in 1998. In the past few years, additional TGV lines have been built toward Rennes in Brittany, Bordeaux in the southwest and Le Mans in the northwest...
...Reagan. The narrator is one Carla Lawton, who grows up in California with few friends and one opponent: her mother. Rachel Lawton lies compulsively and attempts to control every aspect of her child's life. She makes toilet training a battleground, then becomes an increasingly jealous and violent competitor as Carla matures sexually. Democrats eager for political revelations will be disappointed. Throughout the misadventures, Daddy, a bicoastal businessman, is malleable and remote as he floats through years of Teflon fatherhood...
Since Stellar is based on simple starch, it can be marketed without obtaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The product is the first serious competitor to Nutrasweet's dairy-derived Simplesse, which simulates high-fat flavor and "mouth-feel" in the company's Simple Pleasures frozen dessert by mimicking the shape of fat particles...
...Competitors remain skeptical. Observes Octavio Alvarado, president of the Association of Aviculture: "All private producers fear competition from businesses protected by the government. It doesn't look right that members of the government also have business interests." Guillermo Arostegui, vice president of Gracsa's main competitor, the Numar Group, is in agreement: "It's obvious Lacayo has an advantage. He used to run Gracsa; now he runs the country...
...40th-ranked Zimmerman garnered six of nine first-place votes, and with 48 total points, finished 12 points ahead of his nearest competitor, Dartmouth's Matt Semler...