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...burden of too much business, however, may not be with Boeing long. Asia's financial crash has caused carriers across the Pacific Rim to cancel or delay billions of dollars' worth of aircraft orders. Boeing, which plans to build 550 jetliners in 1998, says the downturn may cost it some 90 deliveries--which could carry a value of $10 billion--over the next five years. In Europe, Boeing rival Airbus Industrie, pushing for a 50% share of the world's $65 billion-a-year jetliner market, is wooing long-standing Boeing customers and has been bargaining hard...
...billion because Americans buy 70% of their low-end consumer goods, like shoes, toys and textiles, from China, which has replaced richer Asian nations as the cheapest supplier (which keeps U.S. inflation down). What America mainly sells to the Chinese is high-value-added items like machinery, aircraft and transportation equipment, a few big-ticket sales that don't begin to penetrate to China's exploding consumer class...
Delusions about sinister aircraft are among the milder symptoms of the Billings area's mounting crank plague. East on Interstate 90, in the town of Livingston, the body of a young woman, Angela Brown, was found rotting in a river, and local law-enforcement officials are investigating a Billings meth connection. A few months earlier, south of Billings, in Hardin, an admittedly cranked-out 17-year-old, Jonathan Wayne Vandersloot, whose head hadn't touched a pillow in days, allegedly shot dead his sleeping grandparents, scooped up some jewelry, guns and cash, and took off in their pickup. Vandersloot...
...Chinese leaders tested that American commitment in 1996 when they lobbed a barrage of missiles perilously close to major ports in Taiwan. Clinton replied by dispatching two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups to the waters around Taiwan. Everyone learned a lesson from the scrape. Taipei and Washington found out that Beijing will respond militarily to what it thinks are President Lee Teng-hui's tendencies toward independence. China discovered that the U.S. would not let Taiwan be shoved around if it had done nothing wrong. Since then, Washington has indicated that it is not ready to help defend Taiwan...
...state police helicopter hoveringabove the Charles River plummeted 400 feet fromthe sky, crashing into the Harvard Yacht Club,home of the undergraduate sailing team. While theonly casualties were the four passengers, Harvardgrandmothers across the country panicked as thenational media reported the accident as if tosuggest that an aircraft had hit a building oncampus...