Word: navales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treatment plants are being run by a private company, at a projected savings of $65 million over five years. Indianapolis International Airport is now run by the British Airport Authority, which promises it will save $32 million over 10 years. Goldsmith even managed to privatize Indianapolis' 2,200-job Naval Air Warfare Center, which had landed on the Pentagon's base-closing list. With the Federal Government's permission, he brought in Hughes Technical Services to take over the operation and sell products and services back to the Navy...
...they are told to divulge every secret in their past, such as drug use, arrests and even traffic tickets. For years, that debriefing was a bit like a police interrogation, with signs threatening $10,000 fines and jail time for liars. Those signs have been replaced by posters of naval vessels and slides exhorting the kids to embrace "honor, courage, commitment." "When they see all these nice pictures, that gives them a warmer welcome than I got," says Senior Chief Petty Officer Norman Pretlow, a recruit division commander...
...suburb of La Jolla. Cunanan allegedly courted others as well. Steven Zeeland, who writes books about the gay subculture in the military, says he and Cunanan, the son of a Navy man, were rivals for the attention of Marines and sailors in San Diego, including Jeffrey Trail, the former naval officer who would become the first of Cunanan's five victims...
...turns out, to destroy. A flamboyant presence in Hillcrest, San Diego's gay district, he was also once "employed" by a member of Gamma Mu, the exclusive and discreet fraternity of rich gay men. Even as he mingled with closeted military men at San Diego's naval base, he knew how to deal drugs: give a client a first batch free and make them feel welcome to more, at a price. Cunanan had an astonishing range of knowledge: of the way the U.S. military command is structured--and of the hierarchy of chimpanzees. Zeeland recalls that Cunanan would jokingly refer...
WHAT KILLED THE BOOM To protect its merchant fleet, Holland built an armada larger than the British and French navies combined. But the cost of this outsize national defense caused taxes to rise sharply, and the Netherlands still lost its naval supremacy. The result was the end of Dutch mastery...