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...down what he calls the sport's "financial arms race" by imposing a $66 million annual spending cap on teams, but instead he appears to have provoked a walkout that could see some of the sport's major names, such as Ferrari and McLaren, create a rival championship with fewer restrictions - and take the sport's lucrative TV audience with them...
...Nearly ousted Senator Harry Reid, the current Senate majority leader, in a 1998 challenge. Reid defeated Ensign by fewer than 500 votes in a bitter campaign that cost both sides more than $8 million. Won a Senate seat easily on his second attempt in 2000, and fought off a long-shot bid by former President Jimmy Carter's son Jack...
...Britain with helping to establish the fledgling democracy that allows this diversity, he clammed up. "If I'm frank with you, I will be punished by my commander," he said. "If I answer from my heart, I will lose my job." A second policeman, listening to the conversation, had fewer reservations. "America and Britain didn't come here to help the Iraqis," he interjected. "Anything you did, you did for your own benefit." With cynicism about the motivations for the war widespread in Iraq and back in Britain, any inquiry, however flawed, is surely a welcome...
...from the same period a year earlier. But total auto demand plunged more than 37%, so Hyundai's U.S. market share actually jumped to 4.3% compared with 2.8% the year before. "We're hopeful that [Hyundai's gains] are sustainable," Krafcik says. And the program hasn't backfired: fewer than 10 cars have been returned by customers who lost their jobs, out of more than 60,000 who qualified for the deals...
...That convenience includes never having to go to the gas station, fewer trips to the auto repair shop since an EV is mechanically simpler, and the "feel good" factor of not polluting the air. But will consumers decide that's enough to make the switch...