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Michael Howard, leader of Britain's Conservative Party, has a big problem, a medium-sized problem and an intriguing opportunity. His official nemesis, Prime Minister Tony Blair, is expected to motor down The Mall this week to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament, kicking off the campaign for a general election on May 5. This means it's crunch time for Howard, the third Tory leader to inherit the big problem of digging his party out of the rubble of huge losses to Labour in 1997 and 2001. Right now the Tories have 162 seats in the House of Commons...
...high-end, R&D-heavy, design-intensive products like capital equipment, aerospace equipment and industrial ceramics that are Nagoya specialties. Much of the region's health, identity and confidence comes from Toyota City (about an hour's drive from Nagoya), the birthplace and still the worldwide headquarters of Toyota Motor, Japan's largest and most consistently successful firm. "The company is like the region's big brother, a model to emulate, someone to look up to," says Masaaki Kanda, Aichi's governor...
...HUPD officers and Boston Fire Department (BFD) reported to Vanderbilt Hall Lot after being notified that a motor vehicle was on fire. BFD extinguished the fire, preventing damage to any surrounding property...
...attributable to the age of a pilot. But airlines have continued to support the rule, in part, critics charge, in order to get their most highly-paid employees off their books early. The FAA stands by arguments made during the 1959 rulemaking process that people lose critical cognitive and motor skills as they age. The powerful Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has also argued to keep the rule in order, some say, to keep its younger members happy. The FAA and Congress have been unwilling to question the status...
...popular anthem of the era, for example, begins, “We were born to make fairy tales come true,” and presents an image of comrades working “with a flaming motor for a heart.” Boym noted the comic absurdity of the image: “If you know anything about the mechanics of motors, you know that ‘flaming’ is not a good sign!” Propagandistic art, she said, falls apart under close scrutiny because it was not intended for critical analysis. Instead of generating...