“A diamond‚ is the symbol for love‚ commitment‚ and a joyful new beginning‚” said the TV commercial. Many of the world’s diamonds‚ are mined using practices that exploit workers‚ children‚ and communities. A million diamond diggers in Africa earn less than a dollar a day. Miners are dying in accidents‚ child labor is widespread‚ and corrupt leaders are depriving mining communities of funds badly needed for economic development. In extreme cases‚ diamond mining can cause entire ecosystems to
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1. Airbus is interested in developing the A3XX because its sees a future need for super jumbo jets. Airbus reasons that as the number of passengers increase‚ airlines will eventually be unable to add more routes in their flight schedules and will favor planes with higher passenger capacity. Airbus predicts that the VLA market will have a demand for 1‚550 planes over a 20-year period (till 2019). In addition to the demand for jets having increased passenger carrying capacity‚ Airbus also had the following
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Mr. Mulroney’s final month in office: once on June 3‚ 1993‚ and again on June 23‚ 1993. Through this relationship‚ Schreiber ended up giving Mulroney sums of money that were allegedly taken from the ‘dirty’ money profit from the Airbus agreement with Air Canada. When Airbus was investigated‚ Mulroney and Schreiber’s relationship evolved into a 15 year investigation leading to one of the longest scandals in Canadian history. It is interesting to note that after the official inquiries are over‚ the
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AIRBUS/ BOEING ABSTRACT The airline industry is a competitive environment in which a diversified array of stakeholders constantly strives to gain significant shares of the market. Among them are Boeing and Airbus‚ which are two aircraft manufacturers engaged in a fierce and long-standing rivalry. Over the years‚ this rivalry as produced many different products built at a record pace in which safety and money may be cause for concern. The purpose of this paper is to briefly examine the issues
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The Airbus A380 is a double-deck‚ wide-body‚ four-engine jet airliner manufactured by Airbus. It is the world’s largest passenger airliner‚ and the airports at which it operates have upgraded facilities to accommodate it. It was initially named Airbus A3XX and designed to challenge Boeing’s monopoly in the large-aircraft market. The A380 made its first flight on 27 April 2005 and entered commercial service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines. The airline with the most number of A380s is Emirates
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Background: Airbus Industrie (Airbus) was founded as a consortium of several aerospace companies spread across several countries that combined their resources and technologies to produce a competitive line of commercial aircraft. Over the years the company developed a reputation for being innovative in design and technology. In 1990‚ Airbus in conjunction with Boeing began a feasibility study to create a jumbo jet‚ but Boeing withdrew due to cost and uncertainty in demand. Airbus was interested
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Airbus and Boeing: A comparison By Aben Johnson Boeing and Airbus are the two largest manufacturers of large commercial airliners in the world. They have operated in this capacity since the early 1990’s. This is due to a series of consolidations in the European aerospace industry‚ As well as the acquisition of McDonnell Douglas by Boeing in 1997. Another factor that led to this duopoly was the withdrawal of smaller competitors such as Lockheed Martin and Covair. William Boeing founded Boeing
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CASE 24 Ethics and Airbus One September‚ a fraud squad‚ led by Jean-Claude Van Espen‚ a Belgian magistrate‚ raided Airbus’s headquarters in Toulouse. “They wanted to check whether there was possible falsification of documents‚ bribery or other infractions as part of the sale of Airbus aircraft to Sabena‚” says Van Espen’s spokesman. The team of 20 Belgian and French investigators interviewed several Airbus employees during its three-day stay in Toulouse and carted away boxes of documents. In November
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Diamond cut Diamond A merchant‚ after many years of poverty and hard work‚ moved to a distant region and grew rich. He decided to go home. A man told him that his road was beset by thieves‚ and the merchant left his box of jewels with him until he could get men of his own family to accompany him. When he returned‚ the man denied that it had ever happened‚ and threw him out of the shop. Koosby Ram saw him sitting on the road‚ and asked him what had happened. Then he told him to go back the next
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Should Airbus proceed with the new model?Yes. The A3XX will constitute a new family of bigger and better aircraft with a high degree of common operational characteristics‚ particularly in the cockpit design‚ in accordance with Airbus’s philosophy. For the first time‚ the airline companies will be able to provide much more room than has ever been available. Passengers will be more comfortable and the operating costs will be between 12 and 20% lower than those of the current B-747. The A3XX is the
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