Word: aircraft
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...involving U.S. troops on the ground. U.S.-backed plans for safely removing the 12,000 U.N. peacekeepers call for deploying 50,000 NATO troops, about half of them American. Pentagon officials say they would send units of NATO's Rapid Reaction Corps to join U.S. Marines and carrier-based aircraft to assist with the pullout. About half the U.S. contingent would actually go ashore, a prospect that appalls some congressional leaders. "Despite all the rhetoric that we would not have troops on the ground, they will be on the ground," complains Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. Nearly as worrisome...
Sometimes, though, all it takes is the right question. Thomas V. Sobczak, a security expert with Application Configured Computers in Baldwin, New York, says he recently decided on his own to pose a simple question on an electronic bulletin board for aerospace engineers: "How good is aircraft stealth technology?" A dozen engineers, scientists and even an Air Force officer responded with data on materials used in Stealth planes, their design and the ways radars may spot the aircraft. It was, Sobczak says, "more information that I ever thought I ever would need...
...process makes everybody look good. The Social Security Administration this year will collect about $58 billion more in taxes than it pays out. The surplus goes into the trust fund, and is "invested" in Treasury bonds. Which means the Federal Government borrows the $58 billion and spends it on aircraft carriers, welfare checks and the like. The government gets to report a deficit of $193 billion, rather than the $251 billion it would have to confess to if it did not have the use of that Social Security money. At the same time, the Social Security trust fund shows...
...convinced they have run out of options. Struggling U.S. carriers, which have lost a total of $10.5 billion in the past four years, have laid off tens of thousands of workers, demanded wage and benefit givebacks from employees, canceled or delayed billions of dollars of orders for new aircraft and reduced service to hundreds of small communities. But travel-agent commissions, which at $7.8 billion were the airline industry's third largest cost (after labor and fuel) last year, remained largely untouched...
...that light comes on, you better land the aircraft right then," Retta said. "That's something all kids learn in flight school...