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Boeing isn't impressed. Airbus has got ahead, the company contends, because of unfair advantages--those launch-aid loans, to the tune of some $15 billion over the past 30 years. Airbus' retort: it will give up its state support if Boeing--the U.S.'s second largest defense contractor--forgoes its tax breaks and R&D support. In fiscal 2003, the E.U. estimates, total U.S. government support for Boeing R&D was $2.74 billion, representing 11.9% of the company's profits. That argument has stung Boeing, especially since it is involved in investigations of illegal or unethical behavior...
...trying to steer. Steer guests into the studio audience's acceptance; steer the home viewer into responding as enthusiastically as the studio audience did; and steer the mass of viewers to advertisers. Helmsman may not be the word. Say, instead, salesman. The more people who watched - rather, who tuned in and didn't tune out because something affronted them or sailed over their heads - the more money the show, the network and Carson made...
...being Prince Harry at a Holocaust memorial. You study for hours, yet all you can remember is that song you heard on the radio the day before. Maybe it was Ace of Base? Dates, facts, basic grammatical constructions, all sneak out of your brain like rats following the tune of the Pied Piper. Or was it the Three Little Pigs...
...Change of Tune Global music trade body IFPI cheered a rise in online music that people actually pay for. In the U.S and Europe, legal downloads leapt tenfold between 2003-4, to over 200 million...
...comes to that, the Basque government faces regional elections in the spring. José Blanco, Secretary of Zapatero's Socialist Party, hopes local party candidates can do well enough against Ibarretxe's Basque Nationalist Party to head off a collision with Madrid. And the Socialists say they can fine-tune relations with the Basque Country without resorting to a constitutional amendment. "We are firm, but that has nothing to do with being strident," says Blanco. It's clear that the previous government's tight-lipped approach didn't make the Basque problem go away. Plenty of Spaniards worry that talking...