Word: osprey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Four's a good number," he tells me. "We'll say you caught a few. It'll sound like more." We watch an air show: an osprey scares off a bald eagle that has probably come too close to its nest...
Last week the first of 458 V-22 Ospreys finally landed in the Pentagon's front yard, greeted by Pentagon brass and the Marine Band. But the program has had powerful critics from the start. The Bush Administration tried to kill it, saying its $79 million-a-copy price tag was too steep. The Army has refused to buy the Osprey, citing its cost. Pentagon officials acknowledge that the Cobra's crash--and Bell's role in it--could complicate the Marines' efforts to keep buying V-22s because of doubts it might raise about Bell. "If the Marines come...
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...Texas and Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma had been pressing party leaders to consider an additional $82 billion in cuts, including $20 billion in Clinton's new "investment" programs. The moderates want to gut the space station, the supercollider and a number of weapons projects, such as the V-22 Osprey and remnants of the Strategic Defense Initiative and apply the proceeds to deficit reduction. The centrist faction was bolstered by a report from the Congressional Budget Office that revealed that Clinton had overestimated the deficit savings in his own plan by $16 billion. Echoing a growing chorus of lawmakers...
...Connecticut congressional delegation's campaign to force the Administration to build two totally unnecessary nuclear-powered Seawolf submarines, at $3 billion each, which the Pentagon wants to cancel. Clinton unblushingly supports the Seawolf, along with another hyperexpensive program that the Pentagon wants to kill: the vertical takeoff V-22 Osprey, costing $40 million each. For his part, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Al Gore wants to keep open the assembly line for M1-A1 tanks, which Defense Secretary Dick Cheney announced plans for closing two years...