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...models, which analysts said could eliminate as many as 30,000 of the company's 130,000 jobs. At the same time, struggling McDonnell Douglas said it would slash 8,700 positions from the firm's commercial aircraft division, or 10% of the work force. And Pratt & Whitney, the jet-engine subsidiary of United Technologies, plans to pare 7,000 of its 30,000 jobs...
...FORCE ONE NOW, BUT AIR FORCE 28000. MISSION 1443. Presidential authority stripped, code changed for the last flight. Yet the same 747 jumbo jet that had taken George Bush more than half a million miles around the globe. The power wand of the Oval Office. So much the same but everything different...
...HARD TO IMAGINE THAT PLANES CAN GET MUCH bigger than a Boeing 747, which soared into history as the first wide-body jet. The Seattle firm, however, thinks the airline industry is ready for a new generation of carriers, holding up to 800 passengers, vs. a current capacity of 420. Now Boeing has acknowledged seeking European partners for the venture, in the process perhaps nipping a competitor in the bud. If feasibility studies prove promising, the first superjumbos could go wheels-up within 10 years...
...most notably when inspectors were trying to get into suspected nuclear-bombmaking sites -- Saddam has defied U.N. restrictions on his activities only to pull back just enough, and just in time, to avoid provoking a new round of shooting and bombing. The latest probes began around Christmas, when Iraqi jets flew into the exclusion zone established to protect Saddam's rebellious Shi'ite subjects from air raids. American planes shot down an Iraqi jet Dec. 27, but that apparently moved Saddam to send in the missiles...
Even as he packed for Somalia and Moscow, Bush issued warnings to two aggressors. After a U.S. plane shot down an Iraqi jet over the no-fly zone the U.N. imposed in southern Iraq, the President warned Saddam Hussein not to think he could take advantage of the impending change of Administration in Washington to test international restraints...