Hints and tips:
...At ITER, scientists like Valentina Nikolaeva are hoping that after so many years of work they may yet achieve the elusive goal of net energy gain in a way that would provide a blueprint for fusion power...
...His resolve may be tested. Aviation should be like any other industry but in practice is not; airlines are not just companies but ambassadors and economic development tools....
...For Rod Eddington, then-chief executive of British Airways, his first thought on news of the 9/11 attacks was of the aircraft that were heading to the US without enough fuel to return....
...A review by businessman Rod Eddington in 2006 suggested that projects in London were sometimes approved even when those in other cities had a higher cost/benefit ratio....
...Some of BA’s leading former executives, including Sir Rod Eddington, who ran the airline between 2000 and 2005, and ex-head of public affairs David Burnside, have echoed Mr Cruz’s concerns over the company...
...The eclipse on May 29, 1919, promised a rare chance to test his otherworldly prediction....
...As Sir Arthur Eddington, the British astronomer who led the expedition to observe the 1919 solar eclipse, wrote in his report: “The climate is very moist, but not unhealthy....
...If Mrs May wants to leave an indelible mark on Africa, the air is where to do it....
...Rents may be fixed now, but there is potential for them to rise significantly....
...The Eddington Review in 2006 said the “potential benefits for a well-designed, large-scale road pricing scheme is unrivalled by any other intervention”....
...British Airways once changed its culture by hiring former Cathay boss Rod Eddington. He cut costs and axed Concorde, leaving the airline solidly profitable....
...Some names are relatively unfamiliar, such as the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who wore “postage stamps as make-up” and may have inspired Marcel Duchamp’s urinal sculpture....
...Eddington’s plaque stands forlorn on a scrubby patch behind the empty house, and many of Sundy’s ancillary buildings are roofless and weed-grown....
...Perhaps Mr Murdoch and Sir Rod Eddington, News Corp’s lead director, unpicked the former’s private life over a teary beer or two....
...Existing News Corp directors joining the 21st Century Fox board include James Breyer, Dave DeVoe, Viet Dinh, Sir Rod Eddington and Alvaro Uribe....
...The Tonbridge to Pembury scheme may well be the most urgently needed road improvement in the UK. (This is a disinterested observation; I do not live anywhere near Tonbridge....
...However, while Prof Elson supports what may seem to be a futile act, he was under no illusion that anyone other Mr Murdoch would decide the manner and timing of his own departure....
...Rod Eddington, its lead independent director and head of its audit committee, formerly chaired Ansett, an airline in which News Corp once held a 50 per cent stake....
...Sir Rod wrote the Eddington Transport Study, published in 2006, which provided a comprehensive review of Britain’s transport needs over the next 30 years....
...The final outcome of this latest skirmish may not be known for months....
...In fact, it may be done by neither because it may have to be decided before the merger is completed – a prospect Mr Walsh says would present no problems for Iberia’s shareholders....
...That idea may prove unpopular given the public hostility towards paying for road use....
...Former BA chief Rod Eddington, for example, was a director of Allco Finance, when it joined the buy-out consortium bidding for Qantas two years ago....
...And the biggest labour challenge may still be looming, as BA prepares to bring together at T5 its disparate workforces from T1 and T4....
...It is a remark that may return to haunt him....
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