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...Meeting delivery dates will be only ACAC's first step in establishing itself as a player in the aviation trade. Potential buyers will want assurances that service and maintenance needs can be met for decades to come. "If a plane is sitting on a runway, an airline can't wait three days for a part," says John Bruns, head of Boeing's commercial operations in China. Competitors such as Bombardier have extensive global networks to ensure parts availability and to provide operators with support. China will need to build its own global support system virtually from scratch...
...with the growing dominance of nationally owned energy companies worldwide, the oil and gas industry is increasingly ruled by a handful of giants. Though StatoilHydro leads the world in offshore extraction, it's dwarfed by diversified behemoths like BP, Exxon-Mobil and Gazprom. How can a mid-size niche player from Norway possibly thrive in this new, hypercompetitive...
...cello, best known for a series of unaccompanied suites by Bach, is the orchestra's most solitary instrument. It is also one of the most intimate, a result of its proximity in range and expression to the human voice, and also the posture of its player, which is one of embrace. In Rostropovich's hands, this potent mixture of the familiar and the solitary turned the cello into an instrument of dissent, embodying the lone, heroic voice in its 20th century struggle against oppression...
...tightly wound plot to keep viewers guessing and a milieu--working-class sleuths and suspects--that would be exotic to viewers yet familiar to him. He also wisely dispensed with his own services as an actor. On these mean streets, Ben Affable would look as alien as a polo player. Brother Casey, with his cautious moves and strangulated voice, was the right...
...Amaker says, aptly utilizing the tri-exclamation point approach to bolster his point. “We believe that we can do some truly special things here at Harvard Basketball, but we need you.”This is the same Tommy Amaker, who was National Defensive Player of the Year his senior year at Duke; who led Seton Hall, just seven years ago, to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament; who cleaned up a tarnished Michigan program, winning a NIT Championship in the process; who generated the second-ranked recruiting class in the nation in 2000 while with...