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There is at least one outfit trying to reverse the sport's direction. Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC), a spin-off of Canadian auto-parts maker Magna International, has spent about $1 billion to buy 12 U.S. tracks over the past five years, including Pimlico and Bay Meadows. The company may also bid for the scandal-plagued New York Racing Association's tracks, which include Saratoga and Belmont Park. "I love horses, but I just got bored going to the racetrack," says Frank Stronach, Magna's chairman, who became one of the world's top breeders while he was making billions...
...don’t want to be accused of putting a positive spin on all this,” she said. “Significant declines should be noted as well as particular increases...
...cowardice. This government, he writes, is "betraying the reforming mandate given by the voters in April 2002." Malek Boutih, an outspoken Socialist Party official, says the government's mandate wasn't so much for reform as for stopping Le Pen. But that doesn't mean it can afford to spin its wheels. "If this government sits and waits things out," he says, "it risks exhausting public patience, and finally convincing a lot of people that mainstream politicians are just a bunch of incapable losers." Raffarin is good at reeling off lists of accomplishments: "We've battled the crime problem, improved...
...allow independent repairers to gain "authorized" status from manufacturers, giving them access to technical specifications previously off-limits. A spanner in the works for carmakers. Forging Ahead Canadian aluminum maker Alcan won European and U.S. regulatory approval for its 34 billion bid for French rival Pechiney after agreeing to spin off assets to satisfy the authorities' concerns. The go-ahead clears the way for the creation of the world's largest aluminum company...
...does this in a sense, Ace brings the topic into relief. The title track is a distorted dirge complimented by the arrhythmic plucking of an acoustic guitar. Before long the beat skips and stalls, as if some digital demon in the stereo were trying fervently to spin the disc the other direction. Later, over a beat that features an incessantly ringing cell phone, Ace warns, “Don’t get cooked by the pilot light / I can smell metal in the air tonight...