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...declares Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, they have cut the U.S. technological lead from ten years to as little as three. For the U.S. and its NATO allies, who rely on brains to beat brawn, on "smart weapons" to counter the larger Warsaw Pact forces, the high-tech drain is a factor of consequence in the precarious balance of power...
...week's end Hughes managed to restore calm and slow down the cash drain by ordering the 102 thrifts to limit withdrawals to no more than $1,000 a month. Federal regulators moved quickly to help. The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, a U.S. agency that guarantees deposits up to $100,000, sent an army of auditors to Maryland to rush the process of bringing many of the thrifts under its coverage...
...least 3.5% of assets annually to maintain their tax exemption. New institute trustees appointed by a Delaware court last year began facing up to the tax reality. Hughes Aircraft would have to give the institute as much as $100 million this year alone. Rather than cope with the cash drain, Hughes Aircraft and the institute decided to part company...
Well, musical anonymity may drain one's bank acount but it certainly does not siphon off one's creative juices. While Dylan has managed to put together only two records of any quality in the past decade, Thompson, now divorced from Linda, has delivered a string of ten killer albums culminating in his most complexly beautiful since Bright Lights: Across A Crowded Room...
...recruitment or in image building." An even stronger view is taken by Anson Shupe of the University of Texas at Arlington, an expert on the movement. He sees a loss of momentum in the Moon cult, viewing it as an organization in disarray, pouring "millions of dollars down the drain" and unable to hold on to recruits. Says he: "What the Moonies do is ludicrous. Most people who go through that experience with them walk away later...