Word: contractive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Airbus has been successful in the past few years selling its smaller airplanes to U.S. carriers such as JetBlue, Northwest and United. It has even signed a contract to sell FedEx 10 of the cargo versions of the A380, which list for $230 million a copy. And Airbus is determined to maintain that momentum. Last year the company hired a telegenic industry veteran to make its case: Allan McArtor, who has served as a fighter pilot in Vietnam, an airline CEO and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration. McArtor briefs lawmakers and airline execs about the 120,000 employees...
There's a tried-and-true formula for marketing success in the athletic-shoe business: find a major sports star, sign him to a hefty product-endorsement contract, and watch the cross-trainers fly off the shelves. For 13 years, Beijing Li Ning Sports Goods applied that formula, becoming China's largest athletic-shoe and sports-apparel brand?without blowing big bucks on superstars. Why were they spared the expense? Because the founder and chairman of Li Ning Sports, champion gymnast Li Ning, is also the company's chief spokesman. Li became a national hero to millions of Chinese after...
...what child has the patience to braid all those itty-bitty cornrows? Losers ELIZABETH HURLEY Fab femme is edited out of new Austin Powers movie because she's not funny. If that's the criteria-then when is Beyonc? getting the boot? TINA BROWN Former Talk editor's contract bought out early by Miramax for $1 million. That should about cover her lunch tab at the Royalton Hotel JEFFREY ARCHER British novelist loses bid to shorten a four-year jail term for perverting justice. Much more time behind bars and justice will be perverting...
...McGrath Lewis said Harvard would deny admission to candidates accepted under other colleges’ Early Decision programs not because another school was requiring them to attend but because the attempted breach of contract demonstrated dishonesty on their part...
...other members of the team include a geneticist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist. There are about 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers in Spain, the same proportion as in the rest of the world: roughly 1% of the general population. Those who can now be told that they will contract the disease relatively early in their lives belong to a small part of this total: about 5%. They have genetic alterations - in chromosomes 21, 14 and 1 - directly linked to Alzheimer's. These mutations account for approximately 50% of all inherited early-onset Alzheimer's. If a family has two living...