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Labor peace is sometimes the price of success. Boeing settled its two-month machinists strike late Wednesday night so it could get busy filling the biggest single widebody jet order in history: a $12.7 billion contract to deliver 77 of its 777 jets to Singapore airlines. To do so, the company is giving the machinists almost everything they asked for, including bonuses indexed to company performance, increased job security, expanded medical coverage and an extension of the new contract to a fourth year. The two-month walkout had already delayed the delivery of some 30 planes, costing Boeing hundreds...
...that campaign jet landed, Chirac offered to inscribe a satirical book about himself for Sancton's son Julian. "He kept a number of officials waiting in the rain while he wrote a dedication," says Sancton. "That gesture, thoughtfully signing a book that made fun of him, said a lot about Chirac as a man. Of course, it also said something about him as a politician. The next time Chirac runs, in 2002, my son will be a voter...
...border plants or destinations deeper in America. The majority of trucks are Mexican because U.S. companies, afraid of theft and corruption, are reluctant to send their trucks into Mexico. More than a fourth of the approximately 5,000 Mexican trucks crossing into Texas every day carry corrosives, chemicals, explosives, jet fuel and pesticides, according to Morales. While many trucks keep within guidelines, the volume makes it impossible for authorities to monitor the trucks closely...
Serious tragedies occur almost weekly. Last September, just north of the border, a Mexican driver was killed when a spark caused by carelessness ignited his tanker filled with jet fuel. Texas officials recently investigated a sulfuric-acid spill in Laredo involving a 16-year-old driver with no insurance and no shipping papers. His rig had faulty brakes; nine of its 18 tires were bald. It is not uncommon to find several Mexican truck drivers carrying insurance cards with the same name and policy number...
...scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (J.P.L.) in Pasadena, California, where the Galileo probe was largely designed and built, the moment of highest drama during the Dec. 7 Jupiter encounter will occur at 3:04 p.m. (P.S.T.). At that instant, a signal that will have been sent from the spacecraft 52 minutes earlier will arrive at J.P.L., having traveled 600 million miles at the speed of light. "A positive signal means the probe has survived the most difficult entry ever and is transmitting to Galileo," explains William O'Neil, the Galileo project manager. "That pretty much says...