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...Amazon is investing $115mn in exchange for a minority stake in the television networks that screen some of America’s biggest sports....
...Mr Krafcik, a carmaking expert who coined the term “lean production” in the 1980s and rose to be chief executive of Hyundai America, acknowledged that he and his colleagues had relied on their experience...
...(New York Times) News round-up Blackstone is said to be in talks to buy Bellagio and MGM Grand (BBG) Elliott invests in CNH Industrials ahead of Iveco truck split (FT) Media group Endeavor plans to raise...
...Names banded about during the take-private fiasco of a month ago included Volkswagen, Silver Lake Partners and, by the most-enthusiastic of Tesla devotees, Apple....
...Silver Lake declined to comment. Foxconn was not immediately available for comment....
...However, ULA’s reliability record may be challenged by a significant looming upheaval facing its main rocket, the Atlas V....
...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....
...ULA is developing a new rocket system called Vulcan to replace the Atlas V and Delta rockets and end the company’s reliance for Atlas engines on the RD-180 , built in Russia....
...“Stack up those margins against industrial companies or service companies. Asset managers have margins in the 30s or low 40s. Really?...
...However, a source close to Silver Lake dismissed the report, which had appeared in The Information....
...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...
...“We can’t stop the industrial user with a lab in their basement,” says Bob Radie, chief executive of Egalet....
...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....
...The hearing had debated the timetable for developing a new, US-built alternative to the Russian RD180 rocket engine, which powers the Atlas V rocket that handles many launches of US spy and other military...
...ACL operates across a vast tract of waterways spanning a stretch of America from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Great Lakes in the north....
...EnerNOC points to the example of Great Lakes Cold Storage, a frozen and refrigerated warehouse operator....
...It is not only the usual critics of the military-industrial complex who fear this is part of the hidden agenda of AirSea Battle....
...(Bloomberg) “Fiat Industrial aims to move its tax residency to the UK from Italy after a merger with US business CNH to take advantage of a lighter fiscal regime, according to a regulatory filing....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was 0.2 per cent higher to 14,329.49....
...N.V. Tyagarajan, Genpact’s chief executive, said: “We are excited about this transaction, which is hugely positive for all of our shareholders....
...Crucially, they say, the Obama administration actually stunted the rebirth of America’s industrial sector through a combination of higher taxes and burdensome regulations....
...The location is Lake Michigan. The town is Gary, Indiana. And the host is the Majestic Star Casino. “Welcome to Majestic Star,” says a croupier. And to post-industrial America, she might add....
...As much a metaphor for bloated, consumerist America as it is a very good tale....
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