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...bets, too. Late last year the company announced it would launch a new plane - the A350, similar to the 7E7. Boeing's argument is that Airbus can make such snap choices because it never faces the kind of market risks that Boeing does. Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at Virginia-based Teal Group, agrees: "Airbus has the freedom to develop new products whenever it wants, or to discount prices whenever it wants, because its shareholders won't abandon it. Boeing, a fully floated company, has no such luxury." Boeing is trying to spin the A350 as a sign of lost...
...much public support that opposing it will be the risky position. "I have an obligation to lead on this issue," the President told the Wall Street Journal last week. The President had better be prepared to offer additional reassurance when House and Senate Republicans hold a retreat in West Virginia next weekend, says House G.O.P. conference chairwoman Deborah Pryce. "That is his best opportunity to sell his plan to us. We in leadership have impressed on him [that] the members of Congress are his most important audience right now. It's not an easy lift." Republican lawmakers have also told...
...another instance, Tripp uncovers an excerpt from the diary of Virginia Woodbury Fox, a Washington socialite during Lincoln's day. Writing of rumors that Lincoln and Derickson slumbered together in the White House, Fox exclaims, "What Stuff!" To Tripp, the comment denotes shock at Lincoln's behavior, but it could just as easily be construed as disgust at hearsay...
JOHN H. TRATTNER Virginia Beach...
...very much interested in your Sept. 19 article on Thurgood Marshall, and was equally interested to read the rather predictable letters [Oct. 17 et seq.,] in rebuttal. I recently had the opportunity to hear Marshall when he spoke before the Virginia Convention of the N.A.A.C.P. here. I am not a member of the N.A.A.C.P., nor do I agree with many of their methods. I am a Southerner by heritage, by upbringing and by choice. I was, therefore, somewhat surprised to find myself in agreement with Thurgood Marshall. He pointed out that the Supreme Court has determined that segregation in schools...