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That year, Harvard sold its white elephant to Commonwealth Energy System for $147 million, roughly one-fourth of the plant’s construction costs, adjusting for inflation...
...Washington: "Embraer is the risk-taking company that Bombardier used to be." The risks of working with crisis-hit airlines may soon pay dividends for both companies. Other airlines are expected to follow U.S. Airways' lead as their pilots' unions - which complain that regional-jet pilots earn about one-fourth as much as large-jet pilots - reluctantly agree to relax the ceiling on the number of regional jets the airlines can use. That's just the kind of small thinking the regional-jet rivals need to hear...
...soon for both companies: US Airways, which just emerged from bankruptcy protection, has announced that it is negotiating with them and anticipates placing "a significant order in the near future." Other airlines are expected to follow suit as their pilots' unions--which complain that regional-jet pilots earn about one-fourth as much as large-jet pilots--reluctantly agree to relax the ceiling on the number of regional jets the airlines can use. That's just the kind of small thinking the regional-jet rivals need to hear. --With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo, Robert Brehl and Steven Frank/Toronto...
...soon for both companies: US Airways, which just emerged from bankruptcy protection, has announced that it is negotiating with them and anticipates placing "a significant order in the near future." Other airlines are expected to follow suit as their pilots' unions - which complain that regional-jet pilots earn about one-fourth as much as large-jet pilots - reluctantly agree to relax the ceiling on the number of regional jets the airlines can use. That's just the kind of small thinking the regional-jet rivals need to hear...
...than 450 people have signed on. Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin ’59 would teach the class, and offer a more critical view of economics’ basic principles. Marglin plans to cover the basic economic principles that are taught in Ec 10, but about one-fourth of the course would aid students in critically assessing neoclassical economic wisdom...