The Indian entrant narrowly lost the Miss Universe title in 1993, but the potential fired up the local glamour industry.

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Henry Ford may have been, in his earliest years, when he rode his excitement and clarity of vision about the automobile to give America the Model T and a new universe, but then Ford ran out of ideas and ossified and lost all his creativity.

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