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...European employment agency to a savvier, profit-driven company. The 30-year-old manufacturer was the first to introduce a sophisticated fly-by-wire system (where the pilot's actions send electronic signals, rather than pulling cables, to maneuver the plane) and adopt virtually uniform cockpits for its entire fleet (thereby lowering the cost of pilot training). And Airbus often sells its jets for less than comparable Boeing models. "I'm a red-blooded American, and I want to see our side succeed," says David Neeleman, CEO of the New York-based start-up airline JetBlue...
While Guster has played at both Madison Square Gardens and the Fleet Center as the opener for Barenaked Ladies, they headlined their first “arena show” (read: Hockey rink) at the Whittemore Center at the University of New Hampshire last Friday to a crowd of about...
...missile shield would almost certainly prompt Beijing to accelerate efforts to expand and modernize its own nuclear fleet, in order to retain some measure of nuclear deterrent against Washington. But those efforts are already underway, because China?s missile fleet's questionable capability and vulnerability to preemptive strike severely diminished its deterrent value. To overcome these limitations, China has been working on a ten-fold expansion of its current nuclear arsenal with mobile-launched, solid-fueled, multiple-warhead missiles. So Beijing?s response is more likely to be felt in the political and diplomatic arena, where it will react...
...Quinn-Judge: They don't have much money to do anything with their armed forces, let alone build up or build down their missile fleet. So no matter what they talk about in response to the U.S. plan, they?re unlikely to change their own plans. But they want to use the issue as leverage to get themselves taken more seriously, both in Washington and in Western Europe. In the end, Bush's emphasis on consultation and cooperation will have left them delighted, if slightly stunned. The question is whether President Bush will live up to the high expectations being...
...extended to Taiwan, which China would find intolerable. But it's also concerned that even the most limited version of the missile shield that Washington would deploy as soon as possible to counter the threat of missiles from "rogue" states would effectively neutralize its own missile fleet, which is believed to number around 20 ICBMs...