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Georgia Senator Sam Nunn called the recipe a "perfect specification, cost-is-no-object" fruitcake. Pentagon officials replied that the elaborate instructions ensured product consistency. The cost worked out to a reasonable $1.51 per lb. About 75,000 lbs. were shipped to U.S. troops, who had no complaints, organoleptically or otherwise...
...deal with the current assault on their industrial secrets. Not very well, it seems. Security clearances have been handed out to some 4.2 million people in the U.S., an unmanageable amount that cannot be effectively monitored. "The scope of the problem is just unbelievable," said Georgia Senator Sam Nunn. So many people seek clearance these days that the sheer numbers seem to have overwhelmed the agencies responsible. The Defense Investigative Service will conduct about 220,000 investigations this year and also complete 900,000 nonsensitive clearance checks for federal agencies. In the past decade, its work load has increased...
...agency have been bumpy, with five senior CIA officials quitting. Goss isn't out of the running, but because he would face a confirmation battle from Democrats worried that he's too political, the White House is considering others, such as 9/11 commission chairman Thomas Kean, former Senator Sam Nunn and ex--Navy Secretary John Lehman...
...NUNN Former Democratic Senator from Georgia Keeping nuclear, biological and chemical weapons out of the hands of terrorists must be the top security priority. The next President must build a global coalition of nations working together to reduce these threats. We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe...
...singing about cats, trains, even Jesus - is unable to deliver a new hit, then who can? The industry was certainly banking on Woman to be a winner. The production is budgeted at $6.8 million, and you see at once where much of the money went: the sets. Director Trevor Nunn (Cats, Sunset Boulevard) and designer William Dudley (The Breath of Life, The Coast of Utopia) use ultrasophisticated animated projections on three white semicircular screens. They create a cinematic labyrinth, where the screens spin and whirl, with intricate backdrops that cross-cut, dissolve and move with the characters. When a character...