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...The Mississippi mother of four became depressed, exhausted by her illness and feared death: the average sickle cell patient dies in their 40s....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 8 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“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.”...
...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....
...CP and Canadian National are the only two Class I railroads in Canada, while Union Pacific and BNSF are the dominant forces in the US west of the Mississippi....
...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...
...The figures initially sent shares in the company, which operates in the two-thirds of the US west of the Mississippi, down 3 per cent in New York. By the close they were down 2.11 per cent at $108.39....
...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....
...All three affected railroads move significant quantities of North America’s grain harvest to Pacific ports and the Mississippi River system and have been struggling to cope with a far larger than normal...
...Huntington Ingalls could suffer from cuts to programmes to build amphibious assault ships, which it makes at the second of its two shipyards in Mississippi....
...At the heart of the problems is a trade-off between water users upriver in the Missouri and the Mississippi’s navigational needs....
...CSX, operator of the main rail network east of the Mississippi, said net earnings for the quarter to December 28 fell 3 per cent to $443m on revenue down 2 per cent to $2.88bn....
...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....
...CSX: $10.6bn CSX, operator of the largest railroad network east of the Mississippi, depends heavily on the region’s industrial base for its traffic....
...As well as coal movements, the two railways, which together dominate the US west of the Mississippi River, depend on moving maritime containers from west coast ports to the eastern US....
...The plaintiffs include the City of Baltimore, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Bucks County Water & Sewer Authority....
...It is a journey that takes us back to a time before most of us were born, long before the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, and Brown v....
...BNSF and Union Pacific compete over the western two-thirds of the US, while CSX and Norfolk Southern operate almost exclusively east of the Mississippi....
...The route, via the Panama Canal, takes cargo far closer by sea to most American consumers since 70 per cent of the population lives east of the Mississippi....
...Wright, Senior Vice President, Merrill Lynch Co. David Zucker, President and CEO, Midway Games...
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