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...attacking Paul Krugman, Smith avoids the obvious question: Do you think there was any valid reason for Mr. Bush to dress up and jet out to the USS Lincoln...
...cost difference between a Viking per hour and Marine One per hour is $7 per hour." ARI FLEISCHER, White House spokesman, responding to complaints that Bush had wasted government money by arriving on the carrier Abraham Lincoln in a Navy jet, Top Gun--style, instead of in a helicopter, for a photo op with U.S. troops...
...libraries, TIME stated that "while coalition forces took pains to safeguard Iraq's oil ministry in Baghdad, they left the nation's cultural heritage wide open" [BAGHDAD'S TREASURES, April 28]. This is an example of the cultural bankruptcy that characterizes the Bush Administration. The price of one jet bomber would go a long way toward endowing any major U.S. museum, helping ensure fiscal stability for generations. Actions by the coalition forces to protect the Iraq Museum might have done much to convince people throughout the Middle East that we were serious about their welfare. Instead, we're doling...
...defensive when they traveled from their Montreal headquarters to a recent aviation fair in São Paulo. Just east of Brazil's business capital are the headquarters of Embraer, Bombardier's smaller but aggressive rival. The two companies have fought for a decade over the market for regional jets - the ones with 20 to 100 seats that fly routes like Frankfurt to Munich. And the fight is becoming more intense: just last week U.S. Airways, which recently emerged from bankruptcy, struck a $4.3 billion deal to buy 170 regional jets, splitting the order evenly between Bombardier and Embraer...
...Both Bombardier and Embraer are gambling big money on ever larger regional jets. New 90-plus-seat models, the Bombardier CRJ900 (rolled out in January) and the Embraer ERJ190 (expected next year), cost each firm nearly $1 billion to develop, but might face competition from Boeing's and Airbus' smallest models. Bombardier and Embraer are also beefing up international operations, especially in jet-hungry China. Embraer last year launched a $25 million joint venture to build 50-seaters in China for that market. Bombardier is in negotiations with Chinese partners to build 70- and 90-seat jets. The fates...