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...located in cities including Chengdu, Xi'an, and Shenyang - and are shipped to Shanghai for final assembly. Critical components, such as advanced electronics and engines, are being sourced from 19 foreign suppliers, including the U.S.'s GE and Honeywell. "ACAC has been strong about demanding on-time delivery," says Martin Lin, Beijing representative for Rockwell Collins, which is making the ARJ21's primary avionics systems...
...that price, the 13 screens would have cost a total of $33,799.35. It is unclear how much HUDS paid for the kiosks, but most Web sites list models starting at $3,000—a total of at least $42,000. Martin said that the new screens and kiosks were financed from the HUDS reserves’ budget—the profits from its retail operations, such as the Greenhouse Cafe—and not from students’ board fees...
According to Martin, the kiosks—when fully operational—will allow students to order bagged meals and check menus from the dining hall, services that are already available on the HUDS Web site...
Harvard professor Martin Feldstein used to tell students in his introductory economics class that economists agree on 99% of the issues in the field. From the nature of monopolies to the basic laws of inflation, Feldstein asserted, economists of all political stripes are in accord on the same principles. He claimed that what we read about in the popular press are the 1% of economic issues where the data support no clear-cut conclusion...
...Politics has never been a gentle game. As far back as 1895, satirist Finley Peter Dunne's fictional saloonkeeper Martin Dooley observed that women, children and prohibitionists would do well to stay out of it, because "politics ain't beanbag." But surely, even Mr. Dooley could never have imagined a day would come when a mere seventh grader could be swift-boated...