Word: federales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When defense-industry executives gather to talk about business these days, their cocktail of choice may be Maalox. As Congress debates how to cut the Pentagon budget, one outcome is virtually certain: programs will be abandoned and assembly lines shut down. Under pressure to cut the federal deficit, Congress and...
After the crackle and roar of the Reagan Administration's $2.4 trillion military buildup, defense spending is in a steady decline. The Pentagon budget is still staggering in size -- more than a quarter of annual federal outlays. But in fiscal 1990, for the fifth year in a row, defense spending...
Consumers swallowed the juice concoction, and its manufacturers reaped sweet profits. But last week a federal grand jury indicted three former top officials of a Chicago-based juice company, Bodine's Inc., for allegedly selling 7 million cases of adulterated frozen orange juice between 1983 and 1985. While the company...
Another centennial find is the reconstructed Fort Union Trading Post, built in 1829, near the confluence of the strategic Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in the northwest corner of North Dakota. Fort Union served as a linchpin in John Jacob Astor's lucrative beaver-fur and buffalo trade with the Assiniboin...
"Hostile surveillance" is a technique used by police to pressure a suspect by letting him know he is being watched. The FBI's investigation of Felix Bloch, the American diplomat suspected of espionage, by last week had mushroomed beyond hostility into full-blown hysteria. When Bloch and his daughter drove...