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...students designed and built a lightweight substitute made of cheap, sturdy iron. Hayashi won't disclose the car's total development costs, but he says it will cost some $785,000 just to compete at Le Mans. Funds have come from Tokai University, sponsors, and from Hayashi's own pocket. Additional cash is trickling in from a donation drive backed by the governor of Japan's Kanagawa prefecture, and Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn...
...moment, uncomprehending. Then she looked up.The Stable Boy had fastened his trousers over his prodigious loins and was smiling to himself as he sharpened a scythe. “Ah,” he said. “That must have fallen from your husband’s pocket as he was getting dressed this morning.”Felicity’s head reeled. She threw Frederick’s monocle to the ground and stumbled to her feet. Then she looked back to the monocle, which winked playfully up at her. “You mean?...
...Wednesday "a believer." Woods said she's glad the race has gone on as long as it has because it led her to Obama. "I first supported John Edwards and when he dropped out I backed Hillary," said Woods, wearing a pink shirt with "Ya'll" scrawled on the pocket. "In the beginning I don't think his message really resounded. But then Clinton, she has slowly been chipping away my support; she's done everything I hoped she wouldn't. She went there with her attacks. I started leaning towards Obama and today sealed the deal." For Obama...
Indeed, ever since Antonio Ratti borrowed $5 from his father to open his eponymous company, Ratti has been printing everything from silk pocket squares to couture fabrics for a long roster of creative talent. The postwar years were a new era for Italian textiles?a renaissance of color and patterns after so much gray and black?and Ratti said his aim was to build a company that was both commercial and creative. Designing and printing ties at first, Ratti added scarves, pocket squares and ascot ties, quickly developing a reputation for and love of paisleys?one of the most complicated...
...paid out of my own pocket 4 million euros [$6.3 million], and then the next day, my whole leadership team followed, and they bought out of their own pocket. We have to really demonstrate to the organization the confidence that we have in the future of the company. In the U.S., it is nothing [special]. For a Germany-based, European-based company, it was quite unusual...