Word: airbus
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...plane appeared to be Iran. U.S. intelligence agents even traced a wire transfer of several million dollars to a bank account in Vienna belonging to the P.F.L.P.-G.C. Iran's motive seemed obvious enough. The previous July, the U.S.S. Vincennes had mistakenly shot down an Iranian Airbus over the Persian Gulf, killing all 298 aboard...
...Japan the only contender. Last month McDonnell Douglas agreed to sell 40% of its commercial-jet manufacturing operations to a company owned partly by the government of Taiwan. In doing so, McDonnell Douglas cited competition from Airbus, the subsidized European aircraft consortium. Once it's rolling, the deal could cloud one of the few bright spots in America's economic picture: the $16 billion trade surplus in commercial aircraft. "It's a classic example of what's wrong," said New Mexico's Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman. "Much of the technology that McDonnell Douglas is selling was developed with American taxpayer...
...system toward Spain and Italy. Everywhere workers are lacing the country with fiber-optic cable and new power lines. France is also the driving force behind Europe's innovative strides in civil aviation and space technology. Paris is headquarters for Arianespace, the world's leading launcher of commercial satellites. Airbus Industrie -- a four-nation consortium headquartered in Toulouse and run by a Frenchman -- is now the world's second largest producer of civilian aircraft after Boeing...
...much in fashion as fashion is the ultimate philosophy. Together with modern farms, a medieval patchwork of agriculture still yields its plenty to cordon bleu tables in a country better prepared for the 21st century than most -- a land crisscrossed by bullet trains, a nuclear-electric power grid, Airbus jetliners and satellites borne aloft in Ariane rockets...
...ever expanding lexicon of corporate jargon you may now add "risk- sharing partnership." That's how Boeing chairman Frank Shrontz describes arrangements like the one between his company and Germany's Deutsche Airbus/ Deutsche Aerospace, which announced plans for a joint research effort last week. The risk the two giant jetmakers may share: development of a supersonic high-speed civil transport, an updated and larger Concorde-type airliner that could whisk 300 passengers at twice the speed of sound...