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TWO OTHER RECENT FILMS FIRE A shot across the bows of our news corporations.
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"The Sixteen concept was just that from a technical viewpoint," he says, "but it was a shot across the bows of the other luxury makes.
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This by-no-means fatal blow to the Japanese-owned Shintech plant (the state can snmply amend the filings) was nonetheless a shot across the bows of the waste industry, which has never before suffered such a setback at the hands of the federal government.
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