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...overwhelming." Two years ago, a pair of air-traffic controllers in Albuquerque launched Astroline Products, selling Halley's pins, caps and traveling bags part time. Now the business is growing at a staggering 15% a month. Says Co-Owner Larry Lawton: "It surpassed what we anticipated by a whole bunch...
...Special Forces are often regarded by the brass as unworthy of precious defense dollars and a bit too independent to boot. Disclosures last November that members of the supersecret Delta Force had been charged with skimming covert intelligence funds only heightened Pentagon suspicions that the Special Forces are a bunch of freebooters. Shrugged retired Army Brigadier General Donald Blackburn, an expert on unconventional warfare: "Special Forces have always been the bastards of the Army...
...think there is any significant evidence that permitting more mergers in industries that are hurt will help them a bit." Marvin Kosters, an American Enterprise Institute economist, was also unimpressed: "Most industries in which we have had competitive difficulties recently are not exactly filled with a bunch of pygmy companies...
...world strangling itself with bureaucracy and overpopulation, rampant with crime, terrorism, drug addiction and nuclear weapons, people are searching for any sign of hope. No wonder so many people saw Christ in a bunch of rust spots and shadows. John D. Helm Sacramento...
...intellectual property, military exercises, official delegations and Taiwan - makes for a great deal of bureaucratic and political work. Factor in the increasing intensity of engagement across the board (as well as the pace of globalization more generally) and it's clear that Canberra's China nannies are a busy bunch. A single incident or issue - hardball iron-ore price negotiations, the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement or the defection of a Chinese diplomat, such as Chen Yonglin, the senior consular official in Sydney who has sought political asylum in Australia - is not likely to bring about an irreversible...