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...capitol in 1981 to head up the Pentagon and stayed in the job until 1987, serving longer than any secretary of defense except Robert S. McNamara.Administering the largest peacetime defense buildup in history, which totaled $2 trillion, Weinberger saw his nickname change from “Cap the Knife”—an unflattering moniker he had earned for cutting public spending during the 1970s—to “Cap the Shovel.”Renowned as an anti-Soviet hawk, Weinberger explained in his 2001 memoirs, “In the Arena: A Memoir...
...They must leave within five years; delaying departure cuts into their future U.S. stay. Those and any new immigrant laborers can apply for a two-year visa that can be renewed twice, with a one-year gap between renewals that must be spent outside the U.S. and a lifetime cap of six years. The visa offers no special path to permanent residency or citizenship. The bill doubles existing civil penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants and authorizes the addition of 10,000 agents over five years to investigate businesses for violations of immigration law and 1,000 agents...
Caspar Weinberger, who died Tuesday at 88, arrived at Ronald Reagan's Pentagon in 1981 with the nickname "Cap the Knife" for his penny-pinching ways as budget and welfare chief for presidents Nixon and Ford. But shortly after taking over the Defense Department he became known along giddy Pentagon corridors as "Cap the Ladle," for the billions of dollars he and Reagan were pumping into the nation's military might. In a rush to push the Soviet Union into bankruptcy, he championed new fleets of tanks, planes and ships - and the Strategic Defense Initiative designed, as Reagan...
Since January 2005, carbon markets in the European Union have traded at least 500 million tons of CO2. Because the Bush Administration dropped out of Kyoto, the U.S. doesn't participate in this booming global trade. But state governments are starting to set up regional carbon markets based on caps they establish under their own authority. In December, seven Northeastern states led by New York agreed to cut power-plant emissions via cap and trade, beginning...
RETIRING. PAUL TAGLIABUE, 65, as commissioner of the National Football League, whose solid relationship with the Players Association facilitated a landmark 1992 collective-bargaining agreement considered a team-sports model that balanced free agency with a salary cap; in New York City. During his 17-year tenure, the unflappable Tagliabue oversaw the addition of four teams and the creation of the league's TV network...