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...Thus did Lockheed offer to pay $15 million per missile if three out of their next five tests, starting in November or December, end ignominiously. A spokesman said the five failures had forced Lockheed to "apply additional resources in the area of quality." And this is a firm with plenty of resources to play with. As Thompson out, "$75 million isn't a lot of money to Lockheed" -- especially not with the approximately $3.2 billion the company has already received for THAAD from the government. No prizes for guessing who gets stuck with the bill...
...Yeltsin knows that the Russian people are in for a long autumn of discontent. Time for a new top cop. TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier says Yeltsin's sacking Sunday of his domestic security chief means the Russian president is intent on keeping his government young, strong and in firm control of the populace...
...sharp impact on its price. For example, much of the volatility of Amazon.com comes from the fact that less than half of the company's 49 million shares are actively traded. Founder Jeff Bezos controls 41%, and an additional 12% is in the hands of the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers...
Businesses are paying attention. Computer firm Lucent Technologies has added "gender-identity characteristics or expression" to its equal-opportunity policy. The University of Iowa has similar language, and in February, Rutgers adopted more limited protections for "people who have changed or are in the process of changing" their sex. Last year Harvard allowed an incoming female-to-male freshman to live on a male dorm floor. Campus groups have asked the college to formally protect transgenders, but Harvard being Harvard, the university is studying the issue. Transgenders are pushing ahead in the courts as well. In a little-noticed...
...1970s some of the boosters hired a New York City public relations firm to persuade people that Kansas City was not a cow town. They said I should quit harping on that American Hereford Association cow and that, contrary to what I kept claiming, its heart and liver do not light up at night...