Word: scratchings
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...ACAC still has to deliver a competitive airplane. The company is not starting from scratch. It has made parts for both Boeing and Airbus since the early 1980s. ACAC's Shanghai factory was named one of Boeing's best in 2005, and China's engineers have so far set a fast pace in the rollout of the ARJ21. "Staying on schedule is our biggest challenge," says chief engineer Jiang Liping. At full capacity, ACAC hopes to build 50 of the jets a year. The supply chain is state of the art. Fuselage sections are built at factories throughout China - located...
...Zornow’s beats have rocked many a Harvard party, including Mather Lather, Heaven and Hell, and several events hosted by the South Asian Men’s Collective, but the DJ says he’ll be raising his rates if he continues to scratch on campus...
...ramps up efforts in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Analyst Jay Nagley of consultant Spyder Automotive wonders why Chrysler even bothers with Western Europe, a very developed, tough market. It should, he says, concentrate on emerging markets. "At least in those countries, everyone is starting from scratch." But Chrysler's Manley says Western Europe is too large a market to ignore, especially since Chrysler has an existing dealership network in place there that it can build on. Back at home, ironically, the problem is too many dealerships. So the company is continuing to close some while increasing the number...
...mentioned cause is Vatican II, the 1960s church council whose reforms stressed what Pope John XXIII called "the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity." Since confession, with its accompanying penances, is all too often associated with the latter, many Catholics use Vatican II as a cue to scratch the sacrament from their to-do list. Some also cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), which reaffirmed the church's ban on contraception. Because few U.S. Catholics consider birth control immoral, Humanae Vitae has led to a wider re-evaluation of what constitutes...
...million people. When it comes to cultural influence, there is strength in numbers. Noma's Redzepi sees all that open space as uncharted culinary territory. Did you know there are more than 130 different kinds of horseradish registered in the Nordic gene bank? "We've only just begun to scratch the surface of flavors to discover...