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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 to become nimbler and more focused on its core businesses, making trains and planes. "Rigor and consolidation are the order of the day," Tellier said recently, as he announced plans to raise $1 billion by selling Bombardier's recreational-products division, which makes popular Sea-Doo watercraft...
...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 to become nimbler and more focused on its core businesses, making trains and planes. "Rigor and consolidation are the order of the day," Tellier said recently, as he announced plans to raise $1 billion by selling Bombardier...
...educating America’s children, leaving no child behind demands solutions that go beyond form fitting, cookie cutter standardized tests. Massachusetts must recognize this before it withholds thousands of diplomas...
...such as the College of Art and the Maritime Academy will be given more autonomy. Similarly, UMass-Amherst will have greater control over its own tuition, and will receive a larger base appropriation. Reorganizational cuts like these empower individual universities to follow their own path instead of a cookie-cutter design. For Amherst, increased autonomy allows the college to compete with other distinguished colleges in New England...
...admired private companies in China, a team of mobile-phone engineers was very busy on a recent weekday morning--busy reading sports articles and playing solitaire and Ping-Pong. One engineer, at least, worked on a circuit board, prying it out of a plastic handset with a box cutter. "This team is young," said a supervisor. "They don't really know what they're doing...