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...logistics of his announcement suggest some radical rethinking. Kerry dropped his plan to make his announcement in front of Old Ironsides in Boston Harbor and instead will do it in South Carolina, in front of an aircraft carrier. The switch puts more emphasis on his military background and less on his Massachusetts roots, which are both political baggage and a reminder of how directly he is competing with Dean. And the aircraft-carrier backdrop draws a more direct contrast with a different presidential candidate: George W. Bush. You can count on hearing Kerry's favorite applause line of late...
...Says "Fly Right" Charging undue favoritism, the European Union issued a warning after China Airlines, Taiwan's mostly state-owned carrier, ordered 24 engines from U.S. firm GE instead of the U.K.'s Rolls-Royce. GE admitted its engines are not even certified for the type of aircraft involved in the deal...
Former United Airlines marketing analyst Mark Boyle hasn't worked at the struggling air carrier for 10 years, but every time United's latest woes hit the evening news, he warily pays heed. About a tenth of his family's nest egg--money earmarked for his and his wife's retirement, not to mention college tuition for their two teenage children--is supposed to come from Boyle's United Airlines pension. But that potential income is in jeopardy as his former employer tries to reorganize in bankruptcy court. "I watch," says Boyle, 45, "but there's nothing...
...move comes at the end of a week of bad news for MCI. First came word that the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan was probing the company's creative routing of calls to minimize access fees it had to pay to local carriers. In the so-called Canadian Gateway scheme, MCI allegedly routed domestic long-distance calls that its customers placed to certain locations in the U.S. - where local carriers charged high access fees - through Canada and back to rival carrier AT&T, which then had to pay the access charges. Then came the announcement of another investigation...
...testified before a Senate committee that it still could not vouch for the company's internal controls. GSA cited a KPMG report as well as reviews of the company conducted by former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and William McLucas as being decisive factors in its decision to suspend the carrier...