Word: ordered
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...order, for ten short-range A310s (with options for ten more), is the largest it has ever made. Lufthansa's purchase of 25 of the planes (and options for an additional 25) is the biggest order the decade-old consortium has landed. Equally significant, the sale marks the end of Lufthansa's overwhehning dependence on Boeing. Said Lufthansa Chairman Herbert Culmann: "We have no interest in turning a giant into a colossus...
...carries 200 to 255 passengers, is a later model that will compete with Boeing's twin-engined 767, which will be used on short-haul routes in the early '80s. The first A310s are due to begin flying in 1983 for Swissair, which last month signed an order for ten planes. That was a key deal because Swissair has depended heavily on U.S. planes in the past, and Switzerland is not a member of the Airbus group or of the Common Market, and thus was under no visible pressure to buy European...
...Europe buys 25% of the world's planes, but as manufacturers we get only 2% of the business. The U.S. plane industry will not suffer if its share of the world sales declines somewhat to 75%." Despite the burst of business for Airbus, Boeing has received 229 orders and options for the 767 and the 757. Moreover, before it made its Airbus buy, Lufthansa placed a $1.2 billion order for 32 Boeing 737s and 24 options, the largest plane deal ever made by a European carrier. Since Airbuses are fitted with U.S.-made engines and electronic gadgetry...
Enter a plucky upper-class Englishman. In the days before the sun set on the British Empire, his ancestors might have rattled a few sabers and issued an edict in the name of the Queen. But Robin Hanbury-Tenison, 42, re-established order in a subtler way. After studying the troubled tribesmen, he launched a program to teach them fishing and chicken and pig farming. That helped restore their self-sufficiency and, equally important, their selfesteem...
...crazy pilot (John Belushi) flies a P-40 fighter-bomber to search for enemy aircraft but succeeds only in creating panic below. A riot breaks out between native whites and Chicano zoot suiters, and General Joseph Stilwell-yes, the General Joseph Stilwell (Robert Stack)-is in charge of restoring order. Meantime, a periscope, looking suspiciously like the snout of a shark, pokes out of the Pacific, and a submarine commanded by Toshiro Mifune slithers toward shore. Oh, my God! The Japanese! Then . . . but Spielberg refuses to reveal the rest, other than to say he hopes it is funny. In other...