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For more than an hour Swans performed at jet-engine volume, drawing out songs from the most savage reaches of its back catalog, like "Your Property" from 1984's "Cop."

In concert: Swans at Black Cat Aaron Leitko 2010

•Government contractors are scrambling to figure out what a shutdown might mean for the hundreds of thousands of non-government workers who do everything from building jet-engine parts to education research to emptying the trash in government buildings.

As clock ticks, tension rises over a federal shutdown 2011

Helping GE's performance will be a favorable tax rate and strong jet-engine orders.

GE Finding It Tough to Move the Needle Kate Linebaugh 2012

The downturn crimped many of UTC's business units, a diverse group that includes jet-engine maker Pratt & Whitney, Otis Elevator and Carrier air and heating appliances, which suffered with the global construction industry.

United Technologies Chief Plots Course for Recovery Peter Sanders 2011

While those steps reduced the company's rhenium use by two-thirds, GE also started a global recycling partnership with other jet-engine makers to further cut the need for new metal.

Testing Their Metals Tatyana Shumsky 2011

Scrap-metal companies now fish out jet-engine parts from the general steel scrap heap because the rhenium-bearing alloy parts garner a premium.

Testing Their Metals Tatyana Shumsky 2011

United Technologies owns jet-engine maker Pratt & Whitney.

Deal Talk Spurs Traders to Aerospace Firms Chris Dieterich 2011

That's Rolls-Royce the jet-engine pioneers, rather than the carmaker, which is now owned by the Bavarians.

Letters: The secrets of Germany's success 2011

For more than an hour, Swans performed at jet-engine volume, drawing out songs from the most savage reaches of its back catalogue, such as "Your Property" from 1984's "Cop."

Swans at Black Cat: Taking flight with the subtlety of a jet Aaron Leitko 2010

By tweaking the mix of other hardening additives like nickel and molybdenum, which are cheaper and more abundant, GE was able to cut the rhenium content in its jet-engine blades to 3% from 6%.

Testing Their Metals Tatyana Shumsky 2011