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McDONNELL DOUGLAS. As a result of the buying binge, Douglas has added a million square feet of factory space to its 7 million-sq.-ft. commercial- jetliner division in Long Beach, Calif. The only Douglas product available at the moment is a medium-range workhorse called the MD-80 ($27 million; 150 passengers), an updated version of its venerable twin-engine DC-9. Douglas has delivered 553 of the newer model to some 41 airlines, and has orders for 275 more. The company is helping build a similar jet, the MD-82, in Shanghai. China's state airline, CAAC, plans...
...plane-ordering boom has ensured enough orders for the takeoff of the company's once doubtful MD-11. A longer and more fuel-efficient version of the company's phased-out DC-10 line, the $100 million MD-11 has pulled in 47 orders, and gives Douglas a rival to the larger Boeing and Airbus models...
...study the Pentagon know a great deal about the covert craft. Novelist Tom Clancy featured it in his best seller Red Storm Rising, and Testor Corp. is selling detailed plastic-model F-19 kits for $9.50 each. Best of all, MicroProse, a software company based in Hunt Valley, Md., has produced a $69 computer program that lets would-be cold warriors -- and mild-mannered magazine writers -- try their hand at flying the world's most clandestine airplane...
There is another curious reason why the California eggs may not taste very different from the ordinary variety. According to the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md., the high cholesterol counts that have given ordinary eggs their bad reputation may have been wrong to begin with. Using newer methods of testing, researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven have found that conventional eggs contain between 172 and 232 mg of cholesterol, instead of the 274 previously measured. That would place them somewhat closer to the count of Rosemary Farm eggs. So even if the brave...
...running with a money gun at your head," said a spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Helen D. Bentley (R-Md.), who in 1986 successfully defended her seat against a challenge from Kathleen Kennedy Town-send '73-'74, daughter of Robert Kennedy...