The poll also showed that Detroit's efforts to improve quality and cut costs have not made much of an impression on the Japanese, perhaps because they see little change in the product offerings since the last, ill-fated Presidential visit here.

He'd been the same one on duty on her last ill-fated visit.

Gauguin arrived in the autumn of 1889, after his ill-fated visit to Provence.

Lockwood's own unease is especially evident when, during his ill-fated second visit, he is forced to stay the night at the Heights because of the adverse weather outside.

The officials recall with dismay the ill-fated visit of Secretary of State Warren Christopher to Beijing in March 1994.

Munira Bibi, the widow of the victim eventually regretted her ill-fated visit to her parental home where she lost her husband.

The inexplicably titled "With Your Tongue Down My Throat," describing a streetwise London girl's ill-fated visit to her father's estate in Pakistan, makes for the collection's most absorbing reading.

Valerius had spent half a month in Rome on his last, ill-fated visit and believed he had come to know it.

It moves back and forth in time and presents what almost amounts to a series of vignettes as various people - a social worker, policemen, a detective's daughter - pay their ill-fated (and very loosely connected) visits to the house.

That has changed in the last month, with President Bush's ill-fated visit, new arguments over automobile trade and suggestions from some Bush Administration officials that the American recession was at least partly "made in Japan."