Word: hawkings
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...addition to more F-22 fighters, the Air Force's wish list also seeks more F-35 fighters (needed for "the Required Force"), more C-130 and C-17 cargo planes ("Part of Required Force"), and more unmanned Global Hawk drones (these would merely "Support Required Force"). Unmanned aircraft are supposed to be cheaper, but the price tag on these runs more than $120 million apiece. More than $1 billion is being sought for 11 passenger planes, seven of them Gulfstream Vs favored by Apple's Steve Jobs and Sir Elton John (no mention of any Required Force justification here...
...ridge. In the middle of a nearby glade, Reinado, dressed in camouflage fatigues, held court. "The leaders say different things in front of the people and then different things in the back of the people," he began, angrily waving his rifle. His bodyguards fidgeted nervously as an Australian Black Hawk helicopter thudded away over a distant peak. In a rambling - at times incomprehensible - conversation, Reinado accused the Australian government of installing Ramos-Horta as a puppet to preside over the oil-fuelled economy, said he feared his life was under threat by supporters of the leftist Fretilin party who still...
...their candidate's merits with the fervor of the converted. But like any nascent operation, it was still ironing out the kinks. "Someone came in on Monday and donated a printer, but we keep running out of ink," says Karole Dill Barkley, one of about 20 steady volunteers. Workers hawk campaign buttons to fund replacement cartridges...
...implication is that everything is just dandy on SocGen trading desks for vastly more complicated derivatives - including those based on worthless subprime mortgages, which are now crucifying bank balance sheets and roiling equity markets all over the world. Have no fear, folks: management is watching those like a hawk...
...president is also looking for rewards from north of the border for his clampdown. The U.S. Congress is currently debating a two-year, $1.4 billion anti-drug aid proposal for Mexico, including high-tech phone-tapping equipment and possibly Black Hawk helicopters. Calderon argues the U.S. government has a responsibility to help because it is U.S. drug consumers that effectively fund the cartels. But skeptics fear that U.S. equipment could fall into the wrong hands. The drug cartels have turned many former police and army officers. One entire unit of army special forces deserted in the late 1990s to form...