This boon for Lockheed -- and the setback for Boeing -- can be traced back to a relationship that formed in the 1990's between a disgruntled Lockheed engineer and a Boeing manager during the bidding process for the rocket contracts.
But this boon for bosses isn't all bad for their would-be employees.
But some wonder whether this boon for developers and businesses will hamper the operations of New England's premier commercial port, which in 1999, according to port officials, transported $10 billion in goods through its newly dredged waterways.
Today's news says that in this boon year for slugs (too much rain, too little heat), there can be up to 1,000 per square metre, and that 61 is average.
This a boon for diners, for these experienced servers display just the right attitude: friendly, eager, knowledgeable.
And not only is this a boon for consumers, but it also sends a clear message to utilities.
It has certainly been a boon for this struggling region, providing employment as well as galvanizing efforts to transform the local economy.
John Pomfret's return to the China beat — specifically, U.S.-China relations — is a boon for this business, and he has another well-timed analysis this week, drawing together signs of China's increasingly distressed relationships with the West.
Last week's debacle aboard Carnival Cruise Lines Triumphh, in which an engine fire stranded 4,200 people in the Gulf of Mexico for five days, has done little to deter those civic leaders who believe that building a new $35 million cruise terminal will be a great boon for this port city.
Another boon for this approach, he says, is that if and when such rapid diagnosis becomes commonplace, it can complete the loop and pull back in the pharma companies that abandoned drug discovery by making it easier for them to find the right patients for clinical trials.
