Word: shadowed
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...Airbus and Lufthansa, the manufacturer and close client, had picked JFK's Hangar 19 to launch the plane in New York. It was also the spot where Pan Am had begun the maiden voyage of the Boeing 747 in 1970. And it is in Boeing's shadow that the A380 flies. It hasn't helped Airbus that the $300 million plane was two years late to its own party. Airbus suffered a terrible financial year due to A380 production delays, costing it an estimated $6.61 billion in forecast profit. The company also plans to cut 10,000 jobs. It estimates...
...Peters factor cut deeper than the name. The company was filled with his adherents, including some who were itching to emerge from his shadow. "We weren't all trying to be mini--Tom Peters," says Parks, a 20-year veteran of the firm. "[But] some people in the organization had tom peters tattooed on their arm." In fact, some key players who had followed Peters into the company eventually followed him out. Ron Crossland stepped into the void but in January passed the management torch to Thompson while remaining as chairman...
...concluded, were a response to stress at home, along with perhaps a sinus condition. But four or five months later, it became clear that she had a brain tumor and needed surgery. When her doctors looked back at early scans of her brain, they were aghast to see the shadow of a tumor they had previously overlooked...
...Likewise, Joyce’s performance as Jamie’s younger brother is surprising without calling too much attention to itself. The psychological smallness of someone living in the shadow of his older sibling is immediately recognizable and quite touching, and his voice, which breaks in all the right places, is a powerful emotional vehicle...
...glamorous bubble of white-hot glow, night had fallen over the rest of the city, it seemed. Skaggs' favorite hours in New York had always been the gradual, liminal recession of day into night, the daily autumn, with each of its slow, soft, ambiguous gradations of deepening color and shadow. But twilight had been rendered obsolete by the New York Gas Light Company. Half the city's streetlamps were...