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...million troops for two wars is bleeding dry the military's readiness and weapons-buying accounts. "If you come down to 1 million troops," McPeak says, "you can do one war, be ready to do it and be modernized to do it." Scaling back to such a force would permit the Army to cut its 10 divisions to six and the Marines its three divisions to two, according to some defense experts. Air Force fighters could fall from nearly 1,000 to 400, and the Navy's carrier fleet could shrink from 12 to 10. Lawrence Korb, a top Pentagon...
Dependencies and increasing returns are no guarantee of long-term survival, however, and nobody knows that better than Gates. He and his lieutenants are always on the lookout for the technological breakthrough that could permit some smaller, scrappier competitor to do to Microsoft what Microsoft has done to everyone else. In the past the company was content to let others lead the way-into online services, for example-waiting until there was a clear market opportunity before swooping in. Now Microsoft is starting to do its own basic research, spending $600 million a year trying to build computer systems that...
...number of clauses in the original measure were left unchanged. Every tobacco vendor will be required to obtain a tobacco sales permit from the city. Vendors will also be required to demand proof of age, with photo...
...deal, worked out in secret talks between senior U.S. and Cuban officials, infuriated anti-Castro activists in Miami and their supporters in Washington, and two veteran U.S. diplomats requested transfers off the Cuba desk. But in another turnaround, the agreement will also permit some 15,000 Cuban rafters now being housed at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to come to the mainland, and some Cuba experts are hopeful that if Castro keeps his end of the bargain-mainly by not persecuting any rafters returned by the U.S. Coast Guard in the future-the icy relations between Havana and Washington...
Thompson did not push for the granting permit, and critics say he sided with Flaherty's view that increased traffic on Memorial Drive made expansion undesirable...