"We recognize the huge community of people that text, especially our tech-savvy customer base, and we're thrilled that we can finally enable them to text our existing business number to book a table, place an order, or simply ask a general question that can easily be answered in short form, " said Anna Weinberg, owner and operator of Marlowe.

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In the autumn it could not cope with a bulging order book and halted production lines for a month to complete a number of aircraft that were missing parts.

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Though the order book is thin and the workforce is due to fall to half its 1998 number, management is asking Jakarta to convert its debt into equity.

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