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...than 30 U.S. engineers who flew into Kazakhstan undercover -- on a cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid -- worked day and night for six weeks to secure the material in 1,400 steel canisters. A member of the U.S. team, Alex Reidy, an arms control analyst for a branch of Martin Marietta that runs the Energy Department's storage facility at Oak Ridge, Tenn., said the material was quite accessible. "It does not take a great deal of sophistication to work with some of this material," he said, "so here was a real significant proliferation threat."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
Bowing to the realities of the post-Cold War era, giant defense contractors Lockheed and Martin Marietta announced they will merge in a $10 billion deal. The new company, to be called Lockheed Martin, will become the Pentagon's biggest supplier. In April two other other defense companies, Northrop and Grumman, said they were merging. While the deal still must clear anti-trust laws, government objections are unlikely, says TIME Pentagon Correspondent Mark Thompson. "Just last year the Pentagon and Department of Justice did a review of the defense industry and concluded that consolidations were natural," says Thompson. "They paved...
...corporate marriages range across the breadth and depth of American business, from banking to pharmaceuticals to telecommunications. Defense? Try Northrop's $2.1 billion buyout in April of aircraft maker Grumman, which had also been sought by Martin Marietta. Retailing? Federated paid $4.1 billion for R.H. Macy last month in a merger that created America's largest department-store company. Wireless phones? U.S. West and AirTouch Communications agreed two weeks ago to pool their cellular operations into a business with total sales of $13.5 billion and nearly 2 million subscribers...
...which this community subscribes." That apparently makes Cobb County, where the lynching of a Jewish man in 1915 sparked a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the only government jurisdiction in America to declare homosexuals officially unwelcome. Says the Rev. Charles Scott May of St. James' Episcopal Church in Marietta: "People are feeling insecure. The world is changing. They're confronted with different cultures and personal values, and it scares the hell out of them." One factor that intensifies the battle is the 1996 Olympic Games. Cobb County is the venue for volleyball, and gay activists are lobbying Atlanta...
...your Senator, I have fought and will continue to fight for the jobs of Massachusetts," Kennedy said. "From the new Genzyme biotech plant in Boston, to the FDIC offices in Westborough and Franklin, to the DFAS facility in Southbridge, to Martin-Marietta in Pittsfield, to other plants and other places across this Commonwealth, I am proud to have been involved in decisions that have directly saved and created thousands of Massachusetts jobs...