Word: czechs
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...peril for Toyota is that it repeats GM's mistakes by overexpanding. With new plants in far-flung places from China to the Czech Republic, Toyota has added capacity for an additional 1.5 million vehicles a year by 2006, bringing annual production to 8.5 million vehicles. That's a lot of metal to move at a profit, and it's only getting tougher. Rising commodity and energy prices are increasing manufacturing costs. And looming interest-rate hikes, the bane of new-car sales, may make even today's volume tough to sustain...
...years since anyone with a background in professional theater has mounted the podium. Yet those who might protest that Lithgow does not measure up recognition-wise to past speakers have very selective memories. For every Kofi Annan, there have been Vaclav Havels and Gro Brundtlands, president of the Czech Republic and prime minister of Norway, respectively. Compared to these lesser-known statesmen, the name John Lithgow probably rings many more bells...
...actually happened. There were speeches, cheers and parades, but the German surrender had been signed early on May 7, and almost all the fighting had ended well before that. "We play softball every afternoon," a member of the U.S. 667th Field Artillery Battalion, at a German village near the Czech border, wrote in his diary. "I've had a shower, two movies and a U.S.O. show." Wrote one of his buddies: "V-E day. Just another day. Didn't seem to make a hell of a lot of difference...
...plan was for her to be featured in the background. Somehow she moved to the fore. "Her personality came through," is how Photographer Patrick Demarchelier explains it. Porizkova thinks that the fuss she's already heard about the pictures is much ado about nothing. In Sweden where the Czech-born beauty grew up, "there's not a woman on the beach under 80 who wears a top." Perhaps. But few of them have as much personality. --By Richard Lacayo
...addition to plotting future books, Chen says he enjoys gardening and traveling. He also hopes to spend part of his retirement with his 88-year-old mother in Taiwan and his twin brother, who he says is currently an ambassador to the Czech Republic for Taiwan...