I think the key is that next year, even though Boeing will see about a 15-16 percent decline in revenue, they should still be able to show improvement in the bottom line.

Boeing will have its work cut out to make up those deliveries,

Airbus had a splendid year in 1999 in achieving record new airplane orders, no doubt about it, ... At the same time, you have to remember that Boeing has an incredibly strong backlog of business -- nearly 1,500 airplanes. They should be able to the deliver the majority of new airplanes in the future.

The art of Native Americans is integrated into the functional. Many times the designs have symbolic or even magical meanings.

This is a game that plays out every three years or so.

For Boeing, the implications for a strike depend on its duration,