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...Stiff competition is likely to come from Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which is working toward the 2012 debut of a fuel-efficient regional jet, called the MRJ, that will be built from the same advanced composite materials Boeing is using in its upcoming 787 Dreamliner. (Mitsubishi is one of Boeing's key parts suppliers.) The Japanese government is helping to bankroll the company's comeback in commercial jets with a pledge to pay a third of the MRJ's reported $1 billion in development costs...
...thus far only been two major insider trading convictions: cases involving canning group Pechiney, and bank Société Général in the late 1980s. Maréchal says sentencing in those cases suggests anyone eventually condemned for illegal trading of EADS stock will face stiff fines rather than actual jail time. "But the maximum financial penalties can run up to 10 times the profit illegally earned in the trade," she notes...
Nike Plus faces some stiff challenges. Sure, Nike is gaining market share in running, but consumer tastes are shifting away from that type of shoe. According to market-research firm NPD Group, fashion-themed sneakers overtook running shoes as the top-selling category in the athletic-footwear market in July 2007 for the first time. "The athletic-footwear market will see some tough sledding for the next couple of quarters," says John Shanley, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group...
...such personality is already present, students have a responsibility to fill in and act the necessary roles until the blend seems right. If no one is speaking up, someone needs to act the provocateur. If the atmosphere is poisoned, someone needs to act the peacemaker. If people are stiff, someone needs to act the clown. There is something dishonest and contrived about this arrangement, to be sure. If students were naturally enthusiastic about the course material (and did the reading), they would have lively interchanges in spite of their personalities. Perhaps so, but if good discussion does not occur organically...
...order to monitor their communications. "The experts agree that terrorists communicate with each other more and more through the Internet," he told reporters on the day of the arrests. "Therefore, in exceptional cases, we need to have the power to get into computers." But the proposal has met stiff resistance from members of the opposition in a country where memories of the Nazi police state make citizens especially sensitive to government intrusion...