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...Sanmina and SCI, however, will be well positioned to challenge the industry's top players. The new company will offer a powerful mix of full-service manufacturing, from low-end components to high-end finished products. It will make everything from glucose meters to computer printers and cellular base stations. In any given week, its anonymous factories will produce as many as 5 million units of high-tech gadgetry--all bearing other companies' names...
...energy-cable businesses, in order to focus on telecommunications, high-tech cables, fiber optics and telecom services...
...reports that are on Rumsfeld?s desk right now. One, by civilian analysts in the Pentagon?s Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation, concluded that the armed forces could be reduced by well over 10 percent without strategic detriment - with the savings getting ploughed back into the sort of high-tech weapons systems and generation-skipping investments that Bush talked about. The other, from aides to the generals that make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was simpler: Keep the military at its current size of 1.4 million people on active-duty...
...tangent. Washington will be indulged - what does Putin have to lose by engaging in lengthy negotiations over the scope of the system if the U.S. is going to build it anyway? - but not followed. In the end, nobody's going to try and stop the U.S. from building a high-tech Maginot Line. But we all know what happened to that. And the obsession with NMD doesn't necessarily inspire confidence in the administration's ability to provide leadership on more immediate global economic and political challenges...
...gesture was the threat that if the Palestinian Authority fails to arrest them - which it has vowed not to do - they'll be targeted for elimination. Arafat's prisons are brimming with Palestinian prisoners accused of providing Israel with the intelligence necessary to target the militants with high-tech weaponry, and Arafat is instead appealing to Washington to intercede and stop Israel's track-and-kill campaign. It won't help his case that Palestinian courts hand down death sentences to convicted collaborators, especially now that Palestinian rage following last week's Nablus air strike has pressured Arafat to order...