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...pretty much tied to housing starts," says Darnell. Las Vegas, the fastest-growing city in America, is a big customer. "Someone might run over one now and then, but other than that, they don't wear out. With new subdivisions, though, the orders keep coming in. Sometimes...
...value of Boeing shares 26% over the past year. But the company claims to be in a turnaround. Top executives say Boeing delivered 61 commercial jets last month, a record for June, and has finally broken through bottlenecks that delayed production of its so-called Next-Generation 737s, the fastest-selling new jets in aviation history. That news caused Boeing stock to climb $3.875 a share, to $48.437, last week, still well off its 12-month high of $60.50 a year ago. "We're getting into a normal production situation," says Ron Woodard, president of Boeing's commercial-airplane group...
...before a DC Court of Appeals panel without all the supportive facts the Justice Department would have liked: weeks of hearings, stacks of documents, testimony from a bevy of experts. Assembling that mountain of evidence would have taken far too much time when suing one of the world's fastest-moving companies, the government decided. "They took a risk in asking for the injunction and they knew that the factual foundation for the request was going to be very austere. They took a chance. They gambled a bit here," says William Kovacic, a law professor at George Mason University...
...workers. More than a quarter were decreasing growth estimates, delaying or canceling expansion plans and overhiring--or trying to--in anticipation of a still tighter job market. Bear in mind that these companies were chosen for the survey because over the past five years they had been among the fastest-growing businesses in the country...
...Blake went down with a hamstring injury in early April. Coach Dave Fish '72 may have cursed himself after the Crimson took its first two matches without the senior when he called Blake the "fastest healer" he had ever seen. The healing process was still incomplete as the NCAA Tournament rolled around, and that fact alone did serious damage to the Crimson's NCAA chances...