Inaugural Dreamlier Commercial Flight + Rolls Royce

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(1) David Kesmodel and Yoree Koh, In This Elite-Status Club, Fliers Seek to Take Off on Maiden Voyages; Hottest ticket is seat on new Dreamliner; A persistent Mr Lee's 'Triple First.' Wall Street Journal, Oct 21, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 41142068019446.html
(In ANA's debut commercial/charter flight next week from Tokyo to Hong Kong, the airline held a lottery to provide access to 100 coach seats and auction off six of the 12 business-class seats; its first scheduled long-haul international flight--from Tokyo to Frankfurt--will be in January, 2012)

Note:
(a) Gino is an Italian given name, which is short form of any of the many given names ending in -gino, for example Ambrogino (a diminutive of Ambrogio; see Ambrose), Biagino (a diminutive of Biagio), Giorgino (a diminutive of Giorgio), and Luigino (a diminutive of Luigi).
(b) Founded in1952, headquartered in Tokyo and listed in Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges, All Nippon Airways (ANA) 全日本空輸株式会社 is Japan's second largest airline, after Japan Airlines.
(c) Mizota is a Japanese surname 溝田.


(2) Daniel Michael, Rolls-Royce Powers Ahead in High-Wage Countries.
Wall Street Journal, Oct 20, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 08272097346238.html

, or
http://gcaptain.com/attracting-talent-rolls-royce?32857

Quote:

Singapore assembly plant , "slated to open soon, is also a big leap. It marks the first time Rolls will produce outside the U.K. one of its most prized technologies: titanium jet-engine fan blades. The components must be manufactured to tolerances smaller than a human hair, using advanced processes not yet found in the former British colony.

"Rolls, in contrast [to GE's forming joint ventures with China's state-owned aviation enterprise AVIC], has shifted little high-value work to emerging markets. Instead, it is among a handful of companies, including Whirlpool Corp and Caterpillar Inc, that are bringing home or keeping valuable jobs in Western countries. Most of these producers emphasize know-how and manufacturing efficiency over labor cost.  That goes even for mass-market products such as plastic coolers, which Coleman Co. now makes in Kansas rather than in China, says Harold Sirkin, a partner at Boston Consulting Group.

Note:
(a) Rolls-Royce plc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_plc
(headquartered in London; world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines (behind General Electric); listed in London Stock Exchange; founded in 1906 by Henry Royce and Charles Rolls in Manchester)

PLC stands for Public limited company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_limited_company
(b) cooler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooler