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Despite the hopes of success, he had a hard time finding a job, and ended up working as a janitor at a small radio station. But eventually, King landed a job as a disc jockey at a Miami station, and took off from there. In Miami, King became a popular media personality, hosting interview programs for WIOD-Radio and WTVJ-TV and writing a column for a Miami newspaper...
...firms have put their World Trade Organization complaints on hold and will sit down this month to try to work out a settlement. As irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loans, are a sideshow to the main contest, as Bombardier and Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to explode with demand. Ailing airlines of all sizes around the world have come to rely more and more on smaller, lower-maintenance regional jets - instead of clunky turboprops or inefficient larger craft - to connect hub cities with smaller...
...irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loan guarantees, are a sideshow to the main contest, as Bombardier and Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to soon explode with demand. Ailing airlines of all sizes around the world have come to rely more and more on smaller, lower-maintenance regional jets--instead of clunky turboprops or inefficient larger craft--to connect hub cities with smaller markets. Airline-industry analysts say regional jets are key to many airlines' survival...
...have put their World Trade Organization complaints on hold and will sit down this month to try to work out a settlement. As irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loan guarantees, are a sideshow to the main contest, as Bombardier and Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to soon explode with demand. Ailing airlines of all sizes around the world have come to rely more and more on smaller, lower-maintenance regional jets - instead of clunky turboprops or inefficient larger craft - to connect hub cities with...
...DIED. JOHNNY LONGDEN, 96, Hall of Fame jockey who rode 6,032 winners over four decades; in Banning, Calif. He rode Count Fleet, a somewhat wild horse that Longden persuaded the owner not to sell, to a celebrated Triple Crown sweep in 1943, and won more races than any other jockey until Bill Shoemaker broke his record...