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...spokesman: "It is simply a matter of time before we get there." The company notes that Boeing's commercial airplane unit is still profitable. Airbus places heavy bets, too. Late last year the company announced it would launch a new plane - the A350, similar to the 7E7. Boeing's argument is that Airbus can make such snap choices because it never faces the kind of market risks that Boeing does. Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at Virginia-based Teal Group, agrees: "Airbus has the freedom to develop new products whenever it wants, or to discount prices whenever it wants, because...
Where did the twixters come from? And what's taking them so long to get where they're going? Some of the sociologists, psychologists and demographers who study this new life stage see it as a good thing. The twixters aren't lazy, the argument goes, they're reaping the fruit of decades of American affluence and social liberation. This new period is a chance for young people to savor the pleasures of irresponsibility, search their souls and choose their life paths. But more historically and economically minded scholars see it differently. They are worried that twixters aren't growing...
SARGENT: Anytime you tell your merchandising team, "We're going to get rid of 800 items," they'll say, "Our sales are going to go down." My argument was, If you can be in stock in the good stuff that people really need and look for, maybe your sales will go up. The end result: we just had our 12th quarter in a row of more than 20% earnings growth...
...back pages of papers across the country ever since. From the continuing drama of The People vs. Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroid scandal, to Pedro Martinez’s ugly departure from the Red Sox to New York, to the Randy Johnson blockbuster, baseball has provided enough controversial, argument-inducing material to make the NFL playoffs seem as compelling as a bocce tournament...
Skeptics of the termbill fee insist that the College should not entangle itself with social action, or short of that, they argue that the termbill is an inappropriate place to do it. We disagree. There is no compelling reason why the term bill cannot not be used. The strongest argument against using the termbill is that it would force students into supporting something with which they did not agree. However, because of the overwhelming majority that supported the referendum and the fact that it will be optional, anti-democratic concerns seem to be of little merit...