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...Moines has both urban and rural within minutes of each other, says Jeff Bradford, chairman of the marketing department at Drake University in Des Moines, and that's attractive to companies that want products tested. With its housing and development boom, Des Moines "captures the growth and the shift in the economy that's taking place across the entire country," Bradford says...
...schedule NG 737s parked outside the company's overstrained plant in Renton, Wash. Inside the cavernous building, workers struggled to avoid further delays even as Boeing was planning to speed up the NG 737 line from 14 planes a month to 21 to further clear the backlog. Says Boeing chairman Phil Condit: "We've still got some things to do." Like making money on the hot-selling 737s. Boeing has already written off $437 million after taxes against the first 400 737s in order to cover such costs as overtime charges and late-delivery fees. (Last week the Federal Aviation...
...them. In an overwhelming show of lovable-issue bipartisanship, the Senate almost unanimously approved a $13 billion bill that aims to make the hated Internal Revenue Service a little more taxpayer friendly. President Clinton has promised to sign it, and the bill's jubilant coauthor, Senate Finance Committee chairman William Roth, promised "a new day for the American taxpayer." But FORTUNE Washington bureau chief Jeff Birnbaum sees a mostly empty gesture: "The vast majority of Americans won't feel any difference under this plan -- if anything, the changes will make things more confusing for everyone...
WASHINGTON: When AT&T and cable giant Telecommunications Inc.(TCI) announced merger plans last month, FCC chairman William Kennard jumped right in and gave his blessing. The merger promised new technologies and new conveniences for customers. So why has Congress been holding hearings on the merger when its members should be out campaigning or something? Two words: Ralph Nader...
Whenever Congress writes new tax laws, it makes mistakes. Usually they get fixed. But when such an error granted a windfall to those who inherit estates worth more than $17 million a year, Rep. Bill Archer (R., Texas), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, made sure that provision stayed just as it was. His action will save about $200,000 each for a few hundred heirs each year. Cost to the Treasury: $880 million over 10 years. If you're one of the lucky few, you can call to thank Archer...