'In Hot Water On The Great Lakes (BusinessWeek) "Airbus is in the worst shape it has ever been [in].... This is not a level playing field." --Louis Gallois, CEO of Airbus, pleading at the Paris Air Show for more government funding from Germany, France, Spain, and Britain, citing the U.S.'s $800 million in annual aid to rival Boeing ( BA ) for research, as reported in The Financial Times.