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...cities. The company estimates its launch costs at a massive $9 billion. But while Boeing predicted it would have 200 orders for the $120 million 7E7 by the end of last year, only a few airlines have actually ordered one, including an obscure Italian carrier called Blue Panorama and Britain's First Choice Airlines. Explains a Boeing 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...
...ever gets back to me," she says. "It's as if he doesn't exist." School officials did not respond to requests for comment. Even when there are official policies to tackle bullying, many teachers feel unprepared to deal with the problem. In France, Germany and Britain, students can be expelled for bullying, although that tends only to move the problem to another school. Teachers need help - because they don't always know the best strategies. In a 2001 survey of 66 Czech grade schools, 85% of teachers demonstrated that they had little idea how to resolve a bullying problem...
...arts to the military, there are boundaries of acceptable behavior: in December, British Royal Navy Commander David Axon was permanently relieved of control of the frigate H.M.S. Somerset following allegations that he had verbally abused two service members. According to Charlotte Rayner, professor of human resource management at Britain's Portsmouth Business School, 15% of British workers are victims of repeated bullying. In France, as many as 9% of workers are thought to be targeted, while in Germany more than 11% are bullied during at least one stage of their careers. Cary Cooper, professor of organizational psychology and health...
...Downing Street. Blair knows this, and may be gambling that Brown would retreat to the backbenches. Blair also knows that Brown might launch a leadership bid and trigger the outcome Labourites fear most: civil war. That would damage Blair at home and abroad, especially in a year when Britain already holds the presidency of the G8, takes over at the E.U. in the summer, and should be preparing for its referendum on the E.U. constitution. But the Prime Minister and his allies may calculate that the biggest casualty would be Brown himself, because the party would blame...
...could ever say to me now that I could ever believe." Sept. 2004 Blair announces that if Labour wins the election expected this spring, he will serve a full third term and stand down before a potential fourth. Jan. 2005 The Sunday Telegraph publishes extracts from Brown's Britain by Robert Peston, a journalist with close ties to the Brown camp, which details the Blair-Brown feud and describes their relationship as becoming one of "mutual animosity and contempt." Blair denies Peston's account, describing the book as "tittle-tattle," but Brown does not. Alarmed Labourites confront the pair...