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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!convex!convex!ewright
  3. From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
  4. Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
  5. Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
  6. Message-ID: <ewright.725061292@convex.convex.com>
  7. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:54:52 GMT
  8. References: <1992Dec16.102412.27942@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.724533084@convex.convex.com>     <71877@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec22.160715.28828@iti.org> <SHAFER.92Dec22095137@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov>
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  11. X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
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  16. In <SHAFER.92Dec22095137@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov> shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
  17.  
  18. >Like Air France and British Airways?  Writing off the development
  19. >costs of the Concorde so that they could show a profit?
  20.  
  21. It wasn't the French and British airlines that wrote off the
  22. development costs, but the manufacturers.  Of course, all 
  23. the airlines and manufacturers involved were owned by the
  24. French and British governments, so his point stands.  If
  25. any private company tried such shennanigans, the officers 
  26. would answer to the stockholders, if not the courts.
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