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...There is really no competition" between the Legacy and Bombardier's business fleet, sniffed Bombardier spokesman Leo Knappen. "We have a whole family of jets specifically tailored for the executive-aircraft market, while Embraer has simply refitted one of its commercial jets." But as Knappen spoke, the government of India announced it had bought five 10-seat Legacys for use by its top officials. Bombardier--which owns Learjet, the world's most famous business-jet maker, and Global, a line of larger craft costing as much as $44 million--had competed for that contract...
...fleet of ambulances from the China-Japan Friendship Hospital started their engines last Monday and dispersed into Beijing's smog-filled traffic. Inside the vehicles was a deadly secret: 31 coughing, shivering hospital workers who had caught severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) from their patients. Riding alongside were nurses who recoiled at each contagious breath their dangerous charges exhaled. As the white vans took a leisurely tour of the Chinese capital, a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) walked into the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, hoping at last to gain a more accurate sense of the scope...
...with 20 to 100 seats that fly routes like Frankfurt to Munich. But at the S?o Paulo show, Embraer opened a new front in the battle, flaunting its first executive jet, the attractively priced $20 million Legacy. "There is really no competition" between the Legacy and Bombardier's business fleet, sniffed Bombardier spokesman Leo Knappen. "We have a whole family of jets specifically tailored for the executive-aircraft market, while Embraer has simply refitted one of its commercial jets." But as Knappen spoke, the government of India announced it had bought five 10-seat Legacys...
...need to work on our starts,” Everett said. “Whenever we got off the line well, we were consistently near the top of the fleet, but when we started behind, we had to take some big risks that sometimes worked out and sometimes didn’t work out so well...
Salsgiver had split time with Wallace there to start the season, but was inserted in the seven-hole last month for seven straight games. Walsh said yesterday that he moved the fleet-footed rightfielder down in the order because he wanted to maximize the team’s RBI potential out of that spot...