Last February, the firm landed 150,700 new accounts, compared with 78,500 this February.
Many Indonesians, seasick after his stormy tenure, are longing for firm land.
Averaging 1,800 square feet, the plots serve as blank canvases for a roster of invited designers, including celebrated landscape architects like Martha Schwartz, Ken Smith, Mario Schjetnan, Topher Delaney, Walter Hood, Andy Cao, Claude Cormier, Christophe Girot and the Italian firm Land-I.
European rivals did not lose out completely; Messier Dowty, a French firm, landed a less lucrative contract to supply the nose wheel.BAE Systems, a British defence and aerospace company, made its latest attempt to sidestep competing for valuable defence contracts.
So it advertised, but only on the notice board of an official building closed to the public, helping to ensure that a favored firm landed a €120 million European Union-funded contract.
The judge, Julia L. Aurigemma of Superior Court, ruled Wednesday that the company, Crossroads Investment Company of Dallas, must pay two politically connected consultants about $2 million in fees for helping the firm land contracts with the state treasurer's office.
Its star telecommunications analyst, Jack B. Grubman, quit last year amid an investigation into whether he had conspired with Mr. Weill to raise Salomon's rating on AT&T's stock to help the firm land a lucrative underwriting assignment from AT&T.
Her boss switched her to another project in northern Virginia but last autumn that, too, went on hold.Just as things were beginning to look desperate, her firm landed a contract to build an upmarket hotel in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
While discussions about Allston have swirled in the faculty club for years, the university has no firm land-use plans; administrators refused to let a design professor speak to a reporter about the architectural study of the area he did this spring.
In 1974, his struggling firm landed an account with the Little Tikes toy company.
