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Hardest hit: makers of small, light and midsize jets, such as Cessna Aircraft Co. and Hawker Beechcraft. Cessna, the largest company in the category, has halved its workforce of 16,000 this year because projected 2009 deliveries were cut almost in half, to 275. "I don't think the market will bottom out until the middle of next year," projects Jack Pelton, Cessna's CEO. "Then we will slowly crawl out of this predicament when corporate earnings improve in 2011." The demonization of corporate jets by Congress, prompted initially by the CEOs of the Detroit automakers, has helped kill thousands...
Three days after the ending of the closest Undergraduate Council presidential election in recent history, while the student body’s chief governing organization finalizes plans to pass judgment on vote tallies that remain decertified today, a series of interviews by The Crimson shed some light on the events that led to Friday’s confused outcome and the questions that may define the discourse on what remains to be done...
President Obama is reported to be near a decision on troop reinforcements. Yet reports indicate that the plan could be considered “McChrystal light,” wordplay on the popular drink, because the amount of troops that may ultimately reach Afghanistan will most likely fall short of the general’s request. Troops will most likely begin arriving in Afghanistan in January, leaving the troops on the ground with several months of unassisted operations. Any operation will result in failure if not provided with adequate manpower, and nowhere is this more apparent than in military operations...
Current UC Vice President Kia J. McLeod '10 gives an impassioned, well-crafted speech, first apologizing for last Thursday's miscommunications, then pointing out that this debacle has finally shed light on some of the UC's problems...
...last two games, it seemed as if Harvard had been playing together for years, as the team toppled Boston College and Maine. But against Sacred Heart, which had opened its season 0-2, the Crimson’s inexperience finally came to light...