Word: worldlys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thanksgiving Day in London, officers of Trans World Airlines and Europe's Airbus Industrie smiled, bantered and made a handshake deal. TWA, the last of the major U.S. lines to order an intermediate-range jet fleet for the 1980s, indicated that it would choose the European-made Airbus A310. But then Boeing, the apparent loser, put its flaps up and accelerated. The Seattle company dispatched E.H. ("Tex") Boullioun, president of its commercial airplane operation, to TWA headquarters in Manhattan. Boullioun improved Boeing's terms and worked some blue-yonder magic...
...efficient craft. But the Boeing seats seven passengers abreast and the Airbus eight. The TWA order for 767s will probably grow to 40 or 45 by 1987. Total cost: $2 billion. Coming on top of orders from United, American and Delta, the TWA deal further assures Boeing's world supremacy in commercial plane manufacturing...
...second largest exporter (after agriculture), and sales of commercial jets and spare parts make up $5 billion of the industry's $9 billion contribution to the U.S. balance of payments. Until the mid-70s, U.S. planemakers had about 80% of the commercial market in the non-Communist world. But the technological success of the Anglo-French Concorde convinced Europeans that they could become powers in mass-transport aircraft competition. The Airbus consortium of West Germany, France, Britain, Spain, The Netherlands and Belgium rolled out the economical A300 and smaller, more advanced A310 models, and lately they have captured...
...close friends: professors, psychiatrists and other intellectuals; he relishes their barbs at business because they challenge him to "see the other side." He is married to a social worker, who looks like a Bergman beauty. He has written three books about society, industry, the future. He is a world-class sailor and plays a folk guitar. At 34, he became president of Sweden's largest insurance company. At 36, he rose to president of Scandinavia's biggest industrial combine, Volvo. Now, at 44, age is beginning to show, but he still is boyishly trim in his blue blazers...
...next 20 years just keeping his $5 billion multinational growing in the tighteningly competitive auto market. He is busy now negotiating a deal with Renault to swap Swedish shares for French capital and front-wheel technology. But Gyllenhammar has a cause beyond cars. He is going through the world and warning that the industrial nations have a growing problem: "the mismatch between people and jobs...