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A 4-0 match racing victory against Sean Kirkjian, sailing Tatsu from the Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club, regained the Sayonara Cup for the RYCT for the first time since 1996.

Restrepo's historical coverage of exploitation ranges from the pursuit and capture of Indians (Sayonara's mother,Matilda, was a Guahiba Indian who cohabited with her captor, Abelardo) to the unprincipled conduct of the Tropical Oil Company, which treats its workers with disdain and pollutes the environment in which it operates.

Umeki's award for "Sayonara" was the first time an Asian performer had ever won a performance Oscar.

FORGET foie gras and say sayonara to sushi - when it comes to great grub, more and more people in South Wales are going for good old mashed potato.

(As Gene Brown points out in his invaluable book Show Time, Champion's next show was to have been the eerily prognosticative Sayonara!) We're sure nothing like that is going to happen this time around, so the show will just have to depend on its chorine-goes-on-for-leading-lady plot and its gold-plated songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin.

On the last day of their trip on Monday, before they said 'sayonara' to Japan, they paid a visit to the Himeji Castle, where sakuras were just about everywhere.

TESCO is nursing a pounds 40million headache after bidding sayonara to its Japanese dream.

Built in Scotland in 1931, Saskia was brought to Australia in the early 1950s by Australia's first Olympic sailing gold medal winning skipper, the late Sir William Northam, to win the Sayonara Cup (an inter-colonial match racing series) back from the Victorians.

Many shows crumble under the pressure--like "Seinfeld" delivering an underwhelming sayonara, or "The X-Files" ending with an unresolved cliffhanger.

The shortlist will be revealed in September and the winner of the pounds 60,000 prize will be named at a ceremony at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall on October 27 - the date of Dylan Thomas's birthday.: Gunning for the pounds 60,000:Susan Barker - Sayonara Bar The 26-year-old has a Chinese-Malay mother and an English father and grew up in east London.

''The BOJ's action indicates the world has finally entered a phase of credit-tightening, bidding a 'sayonara' farewell to the low interest rate era,'' said Eisuke Sakakibara, former Japanese vice finance minister for international affairs.

Tyrone Woods connected for a solo shot against his former team in the sixth and Kazuyoshi Tatsunami hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth as Chunichi rallied from a three-run deficit to cut Yokohama's lead to 4-3 before Takahashi's homer gave the defending CL champion its second ''sayonara'' victory in as many nights.

Football's World Cup may have captured the hearts and minds of the Japanese but it is sayonara for Shakespeare in the Land of the Rising Sun.