Newstream.com Digest: EDD Wins Major Contracts; Sales Increase by 30 Percent
NEW YORK--Feb. 23, 2001--Boeing Electron Dynamic Devices Inc. (EDD), Torrance, Calif., recently won several new contracts worth a total of more than $34 million. Under the contracts, EDD provides traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTA) and electronic power conditioners (EPC) to Alcatel Space Industries of Toulouse, France, and to Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, Calif. EDD is a unit of The Boeing Company .
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Clown 'High-Jacks' Downtown San Diego Financial District
After a 20-year absence, a familiar face surprised workers in downtown San Diego this morning when the onetime icon of Jack in the Box(R) restaurants appeared atop the 34-story Copley Symphony Towers. The occasion: Jack in the Box Inc. was hosting its annual shareholders' meeting and celebrating its 50th anniversary in Copley Symphony Hall, 34 stories below.
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Technology for Bad Weather Driving
As winter winds up in most of the country, spring rains bring with it potentially dangerous driving conditions. Fortunately technology now exists to make even the most treacherous terrain more manageable. General Motors explains.
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Feb 24 Launch; Boeing MDR Payload Adds New Capabilities to U.S. Air
Force Milstar II Satellite
A U.S. Air Force Milstar II satellite equipped with a powerful medium-data-rate (MDR) communications payload supplied by Boeing Satellite Systems Inc. (BSS), will launch on Feb. 24 from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla. The four-hour launch window opens at 11:09 a.m. PST, (2:09 p.m. EST and 7:09 p.m. GMT).
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