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Airbus says it has turned the corner after a crisis connected to production
problems and turmoil in the boardroom at its A380 super-jumbo project that
has gone on for the past year. Speaking at the Paris air show, Louis Gallois, CEO
of the European planemaker, said, "Airbus is back."
Airbus, which announced a raft of orders on the first day of the show, is
competing with Boeing, its American rival, for the title of the largest
planemaker in the world.
Boeing is expected to reveal the numbers of orders for its 787 Dreamliner soon.
Airbus orders unveiled on Monday included Qatar Airways confirming a $16bn
order for 80 A350 Airbus planes and ordering three A380 super-jumbos for
about $750m.
Boeing and Airbus are also competing for orders from aircraft leasing firms.
Orders from these companies - who rank highly among the biggest global
buyers of aircraft - are often regarded as an indication of how successful a
model will be in the long term.
Airbus also secured orders from US Airways that are worth $10bn for 22 of its
A350 jets, 60 A320s and ten of its A330-200 wide-body planes.
However, Boeing also announced a deal with General Electric (GE) on the
show's first day. GE's commercial aviation services placed an order for six 777
Boeing freighters valued at around $1.4bn, to be delivered in the last quarter of
2008.
A Wall Street Journal website report, quoting the Delta operating chief
yesterday said that Delta Air Lines were on the verge of ordering as many as
125 Boeing 787 jetliners by the end of this year. However, a spokesman for
Delta later said that it had been having conversations "with several aircraft
makers" and that "no final decision" had been made on future fleet purchases.
Comprehension Questions
Child Labour
Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a
textile 1) __________ in conditions described as close to slavery to
produce clothes that appear destined for one the major high street 2)
__________.
Speaking to a British newspaper, the children described long hours of 3)
__________ work and threats and beatings. The company said it was
unaware that clothing intended for its 4) __________ had been improperly
5) __________ to a 6) __________ that used child labour. It further
announced it had withdrawn the garments involved until it had
investigated the alleged 7) __________ of the 8) __________ code it
imposed on manufacturers three years ago.
The discovery of these children working in appalling conditions in the
Shahpur Jat area of Delhi has renewed concerns about the 9) __________
by some large retail chains of their 10) __________ production to India,
recognised by the United Nations as one of the worlds's hotspots for
child labour. According 11) __________ one 12) __________, over 20 per
cent of India's economy is 13) __________ on children, which comes to a
total of 55 million youngsters under 14 working.
14) __________ in the West should not only be demanding answers from
retailers about how their 15) __________ are produced but also should be
looking into their consciences at how they spend their money and
whether cheap prices in the West are worth the suffering caused to so
many children.
Comprehension Questions
Q1 facility
factory
office
bureau
Q2 warehouse
retailer
warehouses
retailers
Q3 inpaid
unpaid
without pay
without
payment
Q4 warehouses
stores
outlet
branch
Q5 outsource
outsourcing
outsources
outsourced
Q6 association
sweatshop
closed shop
retailer
Q7 breaches
errors
mistakes
wrongdoings
Q8 ethic
ethnic
ethical
ethnical
Q9 outsource
outsourcing
outsources
outsourced
Q10 -
garment
raiment
garments
raiments
Q11 by
to
of
from
Q12 estimate
estimating
estimates
estimated
Q13 -
depends
dependent
dependant
dependence
Q14 Consume
Consumption
Consumer
Consumers
Q15 stuff
ware
goods
garment
Reality Television
Reality television is a genre of television programming which, it is
claimed, presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations,
documents actual events, and features ordinary people rather than
professional actors. It could be described as a form of artificial or
"heightened" documentary. Although the genre has existed in some form