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Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his House counterpart Hakeem Jeffries have dismissed the job cuts threat as an attempt at intimidation and said mass firings would not stand up in court.

Cooper flew to Paris on Thursday from Northern Ireland with her German counterpart.

"UK businesses and consumers have been amongst the first to benefit from Google's innovations, often months before their European counterparts," Google's competition boss Oliver Bethell wrote in a blog post.

Airbus, Boeing, the FAA and its European counterpart—the European Union Aviation Safety Agency—declined to make representatives available to interview for this story.

There might be a lesson there for Dombrowski’s younger counterparts—just as he learned the art of the text-message trade from them.