Word: winstone
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...your credit, I do not think we will. I hope and expect that our bonds will stand the test of time and distance and look forward to laughing with you at our 50th reunion and beyond. For, as Winston Churchill once said, “this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” And thanks to you, it has been one heck of a beginning...
...Over the past few years, the realization that Hong Kong, too, can do something with its harbor has begun to sink into the city's consciousness. Winston Chu, 65, remembers taking girlfriends for evening strolls along the harbor in the 1960s. Forty years later, Chu collected tens of thousands of signatures for a law banning most harbor reclamation works. One of his inspirations was his 90-year-old mother, Cissy, who invited him up to her harbor-view penthouse garden in 1995 and, pointing to the shrinking waterway, "gave me a scolding and instructed me to do something about...
...Russia, TNK-BP, with a $1 billion back-tax bill for 2001. The move has caused dismay at BP in London and prompted Chief Executive John Browne to schedule a trip to Moscow last week, where he met personally with Putin. Meanwhile, the Japanese tobacco company JTI, which makes Winston and Camel brands at a $400 million state-of-the-art factory it built in St. Petersburg, is embroiled in a furious court battle with authorities over a more than $80 million tax demand from 2000 that has prompted complaints from the Japanese government. And tax isn't the only...
...thus the president-seems out of touch. "The key communications problem is to take a variety of these disparate proposals like bankruptcy and energy and show how they're going to help the economy and jobs which is now the number one priority for people," says G.O.P. Pollster David Winston...
...male plumage. Boyer has the best one, called, simply, Elegance (Norton; 279 pages; $18.95). But there are also Alan Flusser's Clothes and the Man (Villard Books; 210 pages; $29.95), a volume so smoothly designed it should come with its own hanger; Personal Style by James Wagenvoord (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 222 pages; $16.95), which means to clue in all interested fellas not only about fashion but about many allied matters, from polishing glasses for a formal meal to packing a suitcase for a quick trip; and Man at His Best by the editors of Esquire magazine (Addison-Wesley; 262 pages...