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...worst part of that permanent Washington is mere slick K Street venality - unelected money catering a hog's buffet. The best of the tenured Washingtonians, represented by Kay Graham at the top of her game, joined good human instincts with intelligent principle, and a certain thoughtful unfoolability about people (Richard Nixon, for example...
...Open will be staged from Thursday through Sunday, as the great event returns to the well-bunkered links of Royal Lytham & St. Annes. Some American pros who have qualified for the tournament will give it a miss, preferring to rest at home and not spend travel money on a mere chance at history. Maybe, if so inspired, they?ll take a shot at the pot in the PGA Tour event in Endicott, N.Y. The B.C. Open suffers the annual misfortune of being held simultaneous with the British Open, which means it will never have Tiger or Phil or Davis...
Finnfighter is one of several Gdynia prototypes that go beyond mere tinkering with conventional cargo hulls to meet the special needs of international clients. Together with lower labor costs and aggressive restructuring, this kind of niche marketing has fueled a remarkable turnaround. Order books for the Gdynia Shipyard Group are among the fattest in the global shipbuilding industry. Between now and 2004, some 65 ships worth more than $2 billion will sail from these docks...
...establish a filmmaker's oeuvre within the context of the other arts. The show is on until Sept. 24. Influential paintings, sculptures, novels, storyboards, stills, film clips and photographs play off each other to reveal the filmmaker's obsession with detail that elevated his movies above the level of mere entertainment...
...Land Rover, which was sold to Ford. And more than half of 1999's losses came from expenses that no longer exist, including interest on loans, loss-making fleet and overseas sales, and the costs of maintaining a workforce of about 35,000. Rover workers now number a mere 6,500. Skeptics, however, maintain that Rover's success is largely derived from the $707 million dowry bequeathed to it by BMW as a 50-year loan. So far, the firm has received roughly two-thirds of that money, with the final installment due next May. On top of that...