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Four Missions. By one estimate, the NSA spends $1.2 billion a year and employs 25,000 people, compared with the CIA's $750 million and 16,500 workers. At its Fort Meade, Md., headquarters, variously known as "Disneyland" and "the Puzzle Palace," the NSA labors in extraordinary anonymity to monitor communications throughout the world and then decipher the coded messages. In that task it is reputed to employ everything from the world's largest bank of computers to blind people whose acute hearing can pick up signals on tapes that sighted people might miss...
...agent F.J. Keegan made the recommendation in a report issued last summer, citing a 1969 IRS ruling "that an organization that conducts manufacturing and selling activities primarily to employ students to enable them to continue their education does not qualify for an exemption...
...corollary of each man's right to control his own life is the right to defend it. This right to self-defense implies the right to employ the means necessary to carry it out, one of the most effective means being the use of a handgun in emergencies. The right of self-defense, therefore, is an additional reason for maintaining a presumption against outlawing handgun ownership...
...charter of the HSA states that the agency was founded to employ students "who are in need of financial assistance, to defray the expenses of their education...
...cowboys, stunt men in the employ of a poverty-row outfit called Tumbleweed Productions, give Lewis a lift to Hollywood and set him down on his own. He picks up a little work as an extra, hangs around the Tumbleweed offices, gets tight with a grizzled old coot named Howard Pike (Andy Griffith), has a shot at being a cowboy star himself, meets a girl (Blythe Banner), works on his novel, and tries to stay away from the two con men who have tracked him all the way to L.A., looking for their strongbox...