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Toprak believes that GM is moving to regain some of the ground it lost to rivals during the company's financial crisis. Ford Motor Co. actually sold more cars than GM in February, the first time that has happened since August 1998. GM also faces stiffer competition from beleaguered Toyota, which is launching a new wave of sales incentives...
...have been the victim of rogue waves. For centuries mariners have told stories about sudden waves that would emerge out of the open ocean without warning, strong enough to topple even large ships. The S.S. Waratah, which vanished on a journey to Cape Town; the M.S. München, lost en route to Savannah, Ga.; even the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, "the good ship and true" of the Gordon Lightfoot song, which disappeared on Lake Superior - all were rumored to have been sunk by rogue waves...
...never won, an Oscar would prove a lot, and she wanted people to know that. "I feel like if I do this, I can retire at any time I want," she tells me. Six years ago, when she was nominated for both Seabiscuit and The Last Samurai and still lost, she got so frustrated, she decided to run a marathon. "I kept thinking: I'm sick of not being in control, and it's so random. I want to be in control of something," she says. It was then that I realized that someone should have suggested marathon running...
...said the approach paid off not only because he lost some weight, but because he had the most demographically diverse voting base of the 20 candidates who ran for City Council...
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