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...Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing trawler, by a U.S. Navy submarine earlier this year. News accounts of the film's U.S. premiere in Pearl Harbor focused on the proximity of the Navy carrier, on which the celebrations were held, to the spot where the Japanese boat was sunk. "I can't imagine why they had to hold it there, and so soon after the incident," says Masami Inoue, a lawyer representing families of the nine aboard the Ehime Maru who drowned. "It is unthinkably callous...
...favorite, now manufactured at a state-of-the-art assembly plant outside Oxford, England. But analysts wonder if the 100,000 to 125,000 Minis that BMW plans to manufacture each year and sell for roughly $14,000 will ultimately justify the $325 million investment the Bavarian carmaker has sunk into the project. "The big question is: Will they ever turn a reasonable profit?" says Jim Collins, automotive analyst at UBS Warburg...
Thursday afternoon Kennedy charged into the L.B.J. Room off the Senate floor feeling pumped. Bush's first broadside hadn't sunk him. Kennedy's team had just defeated the Republicans' initial attempt to amend his bill. When Kennedy appeared inside the room, 30 lobbyists for patients'-rights groups and powerful health-care organizations like the American Medical Association broke into applause. But he quieted them. This President was good at snatching back victory, he knew. The grassroots activists had to keep the phones ringing in Senate offices. "We can't let up," Kennedy told the lobbyists...
...accidental sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. Navy submarine earlier this year. Japanese TV coverage of the film's U.S. premiere focused on the proximity of the Navy carrier on which the celebrations were held to the spot where the Ehime Maru was sunk. "I can't imagine why they had to hold it there, and so soon after the incident," says Masami Inoue, a lawyer representing families of victims who drowned in the accident. "It is unthinkably callous...
...Diaz' election effectively sunk the project. His first action as mayor was to block ground clearance on the land Mondavi had leased for its vineyard. But beneath the rhetoric, powerful local interests were in play. Opposition to the project was led by Aimé Guibert, the owner of Daumas Gassac whose plans to sell his own vineyard to Mondavi had fallen through. Mayor Diaz won over a majority of Aniane's voters with arguments worthy of Astérix: "Do we French growers, with our know-how and traditions, really need Mondavi to help us with our wine-making technique...