Word: hamburger
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...eager to win orders for the A380 that they offered to customize the interiors. Bespoke tailoring might be good business on London's Savile Row, but it's a huge complication for heavy manufacturing. And the task was made harder by duplication. Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France, and Hamburg, Germany, both work on the plane, but their software is not always compatible. Streiff admitted to employees last week that the design tools for wiring "could not keep pace with the rest of the program." Management communication is also poor. Leaked minutes of an EADS audit committee meeting last...
...billion in manufacturing costs annually. The company will negotiate the cuts with union and political leaders in its 16 different manufacturing locations in four countries, but that is already creating turbulence. French and German politicians and union leaders quickly weighed in with objections. In Toulouse, Airbus executives blamed Hamburg for the delays. Hamburg city officials, in turn, blamed EADS management in Munich. With so many clamoring stakeholders, any would-be Airbus reformer has his work cut out. EADS co-ceo Thomas Enders met with Germany's Economics Minister, Michael Glos, last Thursday, and promised him that Airbus wasn't looking...
...same time, investigators are examining links between the British detainees and known Islamic extremists in Germany. Counterterrorism officers there are trying to ascertain the connection between at least one of the London suspects and the wife of a Hamburg al-Qaeda cell fugitive linked to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York...
...birdies in New Jersey. The senior fired a three-under 69 in Sunday’s final round to tie for second place in the individual standings as the Harvard men’s golf team finished sixth at the Ivy League Championships at the Ballyowen Golf Course in Hamburg. Hynes and Columbia’s Chris Condello, both placing second with three-round scores of 217, finished five shots back of the individual champion, Larry Haertel of Brown. The Crimson captain played impressively in the final round, rebounding from a second-round tally...
...Harvard by just three shots after the first day. Dartmouth finished tied for 11th with the Crimson, rounding out the promising results as Harvard looks to improve on last season’s last-place finish at the Ivy League Championships, which will be held next weekend in Hamburg, N.J. “We’re all kind of hitting our stride,” Hegge said. “We have just as much talent as the other teams, but we just have to put the scores together,” he added. Princeton won the event comfortably...