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...fighting edge. Colleagues say he is a tough taskmaster who pushes his 500-member sales force as hard as he pushes himself. In many ways, Leahy is a typical American business executive. Except he's not in America. In Toulouse he heads the marketing arm of Europe's Airbus Industrie, the four-nation consortium that has been making life painfully difficult for U.S. aviation giant Boeing, in no small measure because of Leahy's efforts...
Last year, for only the second time in its 30-year history, Airbus surpassed Boeing in confirmed orders, 476 (worth $30.5 billion) to 391 ($28.3 billion). In the first two months of this year, Airbus had 29 firm orders. But those figures scant Airbus' achievement, since five years ago Boeing boasted four times as many orders as its brash European rival. "I doubt if anyone else in the world could have pulled off what John and his team have done," says an admiring Airbus official...
...DaimlerChrysler is dancing a transoceanic jitterbug that is testing the limits of corporate convention. German and American bosses are fusing their cultures on napkins in airport lounges and in the conference rooms of five-star hotels. The transatlantic traffic became so heavy that DaimlerChrysler, which owns 20% of Airbus, bought an A320 and outfitted it like an NBA charter so its executives could get some sleep between meetings. The 53-seat plane (an A320 normally has 150 seats) flies four weekly round trips between Stuttgart, Germany, and Auburn Hills, Mich...
...over the past six years has been repaid or is in the process of being repaid! Also, there are 77 other foreign-government export-credit agencies already helping their local companies seize export opportunities from American workers. If there were no Ex-Im, most likely Europe's Airbus would win many, if not all, of the foreign aircraft deals away from Boeing, thus displacing even more American workers than cited in your article. A small percentage difference in an interest rate can mean millions of dollars of savings to foreign customers, which can make or break an export deal. DONALD...
...handful of people, which could push the price of even a steerage seat to $100,000. Instead Aldrin prefers a concept that airlines using wide-body planes embraced long ago: carry lots of people at once and drive down the per-passenger cost. To get such an orbital airbus flying, he founded ShareSpace, a nonprofit company designed to help fund and promote mass-market space travel. ShareSpace's vision for cosmic tourism includes Earth-orbiting ships carrying as many as 100 people and clusters of modules that could act as orbiting hotels. "All we have to do," Aldrin says...