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 Bethesda MD (SPX) May 27, 2009 
Last week's editorial was dedicated to the spirit of entrepreneurism. Hope springs eternal and entrepreneurs have to have unlimited amounts of optimism and hope in order to survive. Sadly, the truth of the matter is that most entrepreneurs do not succeed. It is only the few, the lucky, the persistent ones that do have a chance. The search for profit and wealth in the growth industry of spa ... read more 
Wessling, Germany (SPX) May 27, 2009Dr Edith Maurer and Alessandro Codazzi are young, at ease and laugh a lot. They do a job which carries a great deal of responsibility: as a team, the two control the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite from the German Space Operations Centre (GSOC) located at the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen. No signal leaves the control room an ... more
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Luxembourg (SPX) May 27, 2009SES ASTRA has signed a cooperation agreement with Eurosat and the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), the membership organisation for owners of land, property and businesses in rural England and Wales, to provide its members with SES ASTRA's satellite-based interactive broadband service ASTRA2Connect. ASTRA2Connect will be sold to members of the CLA throughout rural England and ... more  
El Segundo CA (SPX) May 27, 2009Raytheon has been awarded a $54 million U.S. Navy contract to retrofit Super Hornet block II aircraft with APG-79 active electronically scanned array radars. The award by the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., calls for APG-79 AESA radars to be retrofitted into lots 26 to 29 of the F/A-18E/F aircraft. The units will replace the APG-73 radars currently installed in the ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2009Two weapons in development are expected to be more precision-oriented, lighter and lethal: the laser-sighted XM-25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System and the Lightweight .50-Caliber Machine Gun. The XM-25 will undergo field-testing this summer while the LW50MG is already being tested by Soldiers. Program Executive Office Soldier at Fort Belvoir, Va., opened its doors earlier ... more  
Fort Monmouth NJ (SPX) May 27, 2009A team led by Raytheon has received an indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity award for the U.S. Army Battle Command Development contract. The Battle Command Development contract, managed by the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command, is a five-year, multi-award vehicle worth up to $777.4 million. The award enables the Raytheon team to compete for task orders that will ... more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) May 26, 2009Hong Kong's exports plunged again last month, dropping 18.2 percent year-on-year for April and nearly 21 percent over the first four months compared with 2008, the government said Tuesday. But a spokesman for the southern Chinese city pointed out that the rate of decline had slowed from March, when exports year-on-year were off 21.1 percent. "It will take several more months of data to ... more 
Shanghai (AFP) May 26, 2009China's Ji'en Nickel Industry said Tuesday Chinese regulators had approved a partnership with Canadian mining company Goldbrook Ventures for nickel exploration in Canada. The Chinese miner said it planned to invest 248 million yuan (36 million dollars) in mining projects at Goldbrooks' Raglan property in northern Quebec, according to a statement filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange. ... more 
Beijing (AFP) May 26, 2009Chinese President Hu Jintao said Tuesday talks with Taiwan on an economic pact were likely to start in the second half of the year, state media reported, in yet another sign of warming ties. "Both sides should push forward the preparation work for signing the agreement," said Hu at a meeting here with Wu Poh-hsiung, chairman of Taiwan's ruling party, the Kuomintang (KMT), according to the Xi ... more  
Washington (UPI) May 26, 2009 Confusion reigns on all fronts about the business and financial worlds the business school graduate is about to enter. Democratic capitalism is questioned, redrawn, drawn and quartered in everything from the Financial Times and The Economist to Chicken Little books about the sky falling. Kevin Phillips' "Bad Money" saw the perfect economic storm coming, and he has updated his best-seller with ... more |
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