Necessity breeds invention and-in the case of an engagement between dueling rocket makers Boeing and Lockheed Martin-very strange bedfellows. Until last week, the two contractors had been at each other's throats, sparring in the marketplace and in court. Now, Lockheed Martin has agreed to bury the hatchet and drop its lawsuit against Boeing after the latter was found to have used stolen proprietary data on Lockheed Martin's rocket during a heated competition. What brought the two rivals to the negotiating table is old-fashioned American capitalism.
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