1.   Customers of the firm include the Aerospace giants GEC.

2.   Boeing announces Friday its earnings for what analysts say has been one of the toughest quarters in three decades for the aerospace giant.

3.   Boeing Co. executives promised Monday an attack on costs to improve profitability and shareholder value at the aerospace giant in the face of daunting challenges and competition.

4.   Boeing, the aerospace giant, is one beneficiary.

5.   After turning its back on Boeing last year to buy planes from Airbus Industrie for the first time, British Airways on Monday again hurt the aerospace giant.

6.   But not with the billions of dollars in jet orders the aerospace giant has been expecting.

7.   But the aerospace giant could end up with more orders than Airbus and still find itself in the shadow of its European rival, industry analysts say.

8.   But until Friday, the Seattle aerospace giant had been overshadowed by its archrival Airbus Industrie, which announced far more orders for new planes than did Boeing.

9.   Companies like Lockheed Martin IMS, an arm of the aerospace giant, are tapping into millions of dollars that went to public agencies prior to welfare reform.

10.   Daimler Benz AG, the German automaker and aerospace giant, warns the bill could backfire.