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...Boeing own the market for large jetliners; Bombardier and Brazil's Embraer are entrenched as leaders in regional jets and turboprops. Indonesia discovered just how treacherous the market can be in the 1990s when that country's government tried to bootstrap an aircraft-manufacturing industry by building 100-seat turboprop planes. The venture failed following Asia's 1997 financial crisis when it lost government funding. During the 1960s, a Japanese consortium that included Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Fuji Heavy Industries built a 60-passenger turboprop - the YS11 - but the plane never found much of a market outside Japan and production...
...That window is quickly closing. Since the ARJ21 project was announced, both Bombardier and Embraer have launched models that will rival it. To date, Embraer alone has already sold 127 of its 50- to 100-seat aircraft to Chinese airlines. Manufacturers in Japan and Russia also plan to field brand-new regional jets within the next three to five years. With the ARJ21's maiden flight set for next year, "China has a head start," says George Haley, head of the Center for International Industry Competitiveness at the University of New Haven in Connecticut. "But it won't last long...
...pressures are even greater.At Harvard, these faults don’t matter because our rafters are bare. At least on the men’s side—the women have accumulated enough Ivy Championships under Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith for both teams. Our pavilion can’t seat three thousand, let alone 13, 751—the capacity at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor. And on top of this, the pressure is off Amaker because, to put it bluntly, nobody at Harvard really cares.At least not yet.Looking past the critiques, you will find a potential for success Harvard...
...subscription-only club for DJs interested in avant-garde medley mixing, hosted the weekend in the 2,350-seat London Indig02 arena. In addition to the Battle for World Supremacy, DJs from 24 different countries—including Italy, Japan, Spain, and Singapore—competed in six-minute and team face-offs...
...director of a federal Medicare commission at 27 and head of the Louisiana State University system a year later. At 30, he was serving as an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and by 33, a year after his defeat, he won the U.S. House seat being vacated by G.O.P. Senator David Vitter and coasted to reelection...