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...Rasping through singed lungs, Ali, 12, indicated that he may have surviving family members. He said his parents are divorced and his father and stepmother are still alive, though no one knows how to reach them. Ali said that under Saddam Hussein it was difficult for his family to earn a living, but there were moments of joy, as when the family went to the park on feast days and played soccer...
...coming soon for both companies: US Airways, which just emerged from bankruptcy protection, has announced that it is negotiating with them and anticipates placing "a significant order in the near future." Other airlines are expected to follow suit as their pilots' unions--which complain that regional-jet pilots earn about one-fourth as much as large-jet pilots--reluctantly agree to relax the ceiling on the number of regional jets the airlines can use. That's just the kind of small thinking the regional-jet rivals need to hear. --With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo, Robert Brehl and Steven Frank/Toronto...
Sophomore Mike Morgalis escaped a one-out, bases-loaded situation in the fifth and hung on to earn his second win with the Crimson...
...producer of railway equipment, including the high-speed locomotives chosen for Amtrak's East Coast Acela service in the U.S. The company's new plan emphasizes its "many opportunities for synergies," and Tellier is already primed for some serious nipping and tucking. The day after the company halved its earnings guidance in March, Tellier announced he would ax 10% of the work force in the aircraft unit, on the heels of deep job cuts last year. A decade ago, few would have guessed Embraer would be Bombardier's main competitor in the regional-jet business. But Embraer's 1994 privatization...
...That leaves oil. Optimistically, Iraq will be able to earn $25 billion a year through oil revenues, but since the U.S. is likely to privatize the Iraqi oil industry, only a fraction of those revenues may be available for government consumption. Still, any well- planned privatization initiative would provide the government with a substantial windfall. It is conceivable that just auctioning the production rights to operating fields to international consortiums, even with a requirement that they have a substantial participation by Iraqi nationals could provide upwards of $50 billion. Morris Adelman, an MIT economist, claims that selling production rights...