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...“We’re talking about institutions that have been around for decades or hundreds of years,” says Mr Wright. “They don’t want to be caught flat-footed.”...
...Both are demonstrably false,” Mr Wright wrote in the New York Times last month....
...Aerojet said the AR1 would be ready to fly on Atlas V in 2020 and on Vulcan by 2021, only just behind the 2019 finish date that Blue Origin is targeting....
...Aerojet’s offer underlines the company’s desire to supply the engine for the new Vulcan rocket that ULA is developing to replace its Atlas V, which is powered by Russia-built engines that congress has said...
...But as the company edges closer to completing the DirecTV deal, “the picture is getting clearer”, says John Hodulik, an analyst at UBS....
...The engines — powered by methane, a new propellant for US-built engines — will initially power a similar rocket to the Atlas V that ULA powers with Russian-built RD180 engines....
...“We’re here to disrupt and shatter the status quo and dispel preconceived notions,” Johan de Nysschen, Cadillac’s chief executive, said at the unveiling of the new Cadillac CTS-V, a performance version of...
...The RD-180 powers ULA’s Atlas V rocket, used for the most sensitive US satellite launches. The US looks all but certain to develop its own alternative....
...ULA has stockpiled two years’ worth of RD180s for launches – and could switch more launches from the Atlas V to its more old-fashioned but wholly US-sourced Delta rockets....
...Top shareholdings: Coca-Cola; ConocoPhillips; DirecTV; GlaxoSmithKline; General Electric; IBM. Portfolio Value: Berkshire’s equity portfolio was valued at $103.3bn at the end of June....
...In a separate case, New York-listed Diana Shipping said in December it was owed $4.8m for charter of the M/V Houston, which it had chartered for five years to China’s Shagang Shipping....
...Wolf was a consultant to Comcast when it bought AT&T’s cable television systems and to Rupert Murdoch during his drawn-out battle to buy DirecTV....
...“We were distracted by DirecTV and Sky Italia,” recalls one executive, who declined to be named, “so Rupert had to watch Universal go by and it almost killed him.”...
...Admitting that NBC looked at DirecTV, the US satellite operator where News Corp acquired a controlling stake last year, the chairman added: “We passed on DirecTV because when you start being in distribution...
...Bob Wright believes he has created a new kind of media and entertainment group....
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