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...letting the small risk that I will contract SARS change my summer and thesis plans,” said Stuchell, who said the last she heard students are still allowed to make their own choices about travel, but are “strongly advised” against...
...with Iraq, but it brought a truce in a nasty food fight last week in Washington. The skirmishing began last month, when Congressman Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican, gathered signatures from 59 of his fellow lawmakers for a letter asking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to cancel the $881 million contract of a company called Sodexho to cater 55 Marine mess halls. Reason: Sodexho is the U.S. subsidiary of a French company. "I think you will agree that it is inconsistent for us to continue to pour billions of dollars into the French economy in the face of the recent French...
...Sodexho workers. Schumer personally lobbied Rumsfeld and has been in daily contact with the Pentagon on the issue. The efforts were repaid last Friday, when Schumer's office was notified that the Secretary of the Navy would soon be sending a letter of reassurance that the contract was safe. "It's a huge relief, with a capital R," says Sodexho spokeswoman Leslie Aun. --By Karen Tumulty
...Knappen spoke, the government of India announced it had bought five 10-seat Legacys for use by its top officials. Bombardier--which owns Learjet, the world's most famous business-jet maker, and Global, a line of larger craft costing as much as $44 million--had competed for that contract...
...Knappen spoke, the government of India announced it had bought five 10-seat Legacys for use by its top officials. Bombardier - which owns Learjet, the world's most famous business-jet maker, and Global, a line of larger craft costing as much as $44 million - had competed for that contract. Bombardier, while proud of its status as the world's third largest aircraftmaker (after Boeing and Airbus), is feeling more and more like Goliath to Embraer's David. Under new ceo Paul Tellier, a proven cost cutter, Bombardier Inc., the parent company of Bombardier Aerospace, is paring down its operations...