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...like the King Air (1,500 are flying today) may soon reach the saturation point, and General Dynamics' experience with jet power could help Beech expand into that field. This year, for example, industry analysts forecast that the light-plane manufacturers will sell 12,300 small single-engine prop jobs like the familiar Beechcraft Bonanza at a total wholesale cost of $375 million. Yet their sales of bigger jet craft, while projected at just 230 planes, will bring them almost as much revenue: $368 million, to be exact...
...wonder if you can elaborate. It would definitely help to prop up one of the mainstays of our economy-local dishes and tourism...
...General Electric Corporation. Harvard will vote to abstain on a resolution calling on General Electric--one of the most socially retrograde U.S. corporations in South Africa--to withdraw its operations from that country. While all U.S. investment in South Africa is undesirable, insofar as it serves as an economic prop for the morally abhorrent apartheid regime and continues a U.S. foreign policy in South Africa committed to American business rather than to the basic rights of a severely oppressed people, the case for G.E.'s withdrawal from South Africa is particularly strong...
...some of his convictions about how to do the job that fact and fiction touch. His wardrobe includes "an FBI outfit" - blue suit, white shirt and red tie ("It makes people want to stand up and salute"). His car is filled with hats of all styles - deeply valued props. Another prop consists of a wife and two children. The Blye family drives up to a house and, as the detective notes, "even subpoena-shy people are usually helpful to a man with a wife and kids...
After this laconic beginning, Bishop needs only a prop-a copy of National Geographic-and a small cry of pain from the dentist's chair to create a child's epiphanic moment: "The waiting room was bright/ and too hot. It was sliding/ beneath a big black wave,/ another, and another...