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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...
...Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe has an amendment drafted to allow Navy shipyards to pay taxes on the profit from a ship contract after the vessel is built instead of while it's under construction. That would mean Bath Iron Works, the shipyard in her state, would have more cash on hand during the years a ship is being built. Snowe insists her measure "would not reduce the amount of taxes ultimately paid by a shipbuilder. It simply would defer payment until the profit actually is known...
...Christie Brinkley wears plain white men's T shirts. Outside B.J.'s Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once sent their maids and drivers to the back door with bundles of high-fashion castoffs to sell now bring them by in person and stick around to shop...
...miraculous, Chung was chief miracle maker. He started out selling rice as a runaway teenager, set up his own construction company, then piled into everything from supertankers to microchips. His energy and drive were Olympian, his chutzpah legendary: he once sold a ship before Hyundai even had a shipyard. But like other chaebol chieftains, he fueled his empire with cheap debt and political favors, and Korea's economic crash in 1997 discredited the formula. By then Chung was dreaming of driving his bulldozers north. Taking one last audacious turn in the driver's seat, he poured millions into North Korea...
...panning over to Franklin's studied determination. At every commercial, we could watch ourselves on the monitor to the left and comment about who got the most airtime. Noah's face continued to pale as his fifteen seconds of fame loomed over him. But the patrons swilled locally brewed Shipyard Ale and hooted uproariously as the floor manager grabbed her microphone and told us all to keep quiet. And then, after countless cracks at Bush, diatribes from Cellucci, praise from Simpson, analysis from Capital Hill think tankers and ranting and raving from good old Chris, the early evening show wrapped...