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...Airbus and Lufthansa, the manufacturer and close client, had picked JFK's Hangar 19 to launch the plane in New York. It was also the spot where Pan Am had begun the maiden voyage of the Boeing 747 in 1970. And it is in Boeing's shadow that the A380 flies. It hasn't helped Airbus that the $300 million plane was two years late to its own party. Airbus suffered a terrible financial year due to A380 production delays, costing it an estimated $6.61 billion in forecast profit. The company also plans to cut 10,000 jobs. It estimates...
Gates is a major donor to the University. In 1996, he and Ballmer contributed $25 million to construct the computer-science building Maxwell Dworkin, which bears their mothers’ maiden names...
...London Evening News between 1953 and 1958. It was syndicated then, but has never been published since - until now. In the comic strip, the Moomin family strays far from the tranquil charms of Moominvalley: on the French Riviera, Moominpappa gets drunk and Moomin's sweetheart, the Snork Maiden, is seduced by a toothy film star. But then the hattifatteners appear - mute, sock-like animals that grow from seeds and chase after electric storms. There's the discovery of a chestful of swearwords (they have legs) and, at one point, the gentle Moomin is forced by hunger to kill and roast...
Patrick today overwhelmingly defeated Republican opponent Kerry M. Healey ’82 to become Massachusetts’ first-ever black governor, and its first Democratic chief executive in 16 years. While it was Patrick’s maiden run in a statewide campaign, it's not the only time he has won office in Massachusetts—he was co-chair of the Dunster House Committee nearly three decades...
...domestic issues such as pension reform and economic inequality, bread-and-butter concerns that will likely push foreign policy off the front pages long before next July's critical upper-house elections. Many analysts are doubtful, not least because Abe has yet to set out his domestic agenda. His maiden Diet speech contained a lot of rhetoric about the need to make Japan a "beautiful country" without mentioning specific, results-oriented policy initiatives that were a hallmark of Koizumi's administration. "He talks about economic revitalization and closing the gap between urban and rural regions, but he insists on cutting...