Word: program
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senior year is hard enough without adding extras, and I was not too psyched about the commitment I had made for Sept. 8-13. When I was accepted to the Women's Leadership Conference (WLC) last spring, my happiness at being chosen was quickly qualified by skepticism about the program and fear that it would be a waste of time. I was wrong on all counts...
...says the company exerts a strong "gravitational pull" on the service. Bell reaps 95% of the Marines' spending on helicopters each year, or more than $1 billion. More critically, some Pentagon officials suggest that the Marines don't want the crash to jeopardize Bell's $36 billion V-22 program. That Marine "tilt-rotor" aircraft, which takes off and lands like a helicopter and cruises like a turboprop airplane, is on the verge of lifting off after more than a decade of troubled development...
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...
...world's Viacoms be capable of competing on this terrain? Sure. Between Hollywood's program libraries, production studios and promotional muscle, when the behemoths put their full weight online, they'll be some of the biggest dogs on the block. What's more, predicting a paradigm shift based on a declining American appetite for ordinary TV may prove to be a fool's errand. Still, CBS's $36 billion price tag derives from its status as a network that dominates Madison Avenue's ad dollars, not as just another player in a new and unpredictable ball game. "The Web turns...
...need of a new mission. Sure, the U.S. still has $5.6 trillion in obligations to manage. That'll keep it busy for a while. But things are different now that we're no longer spending more than we make. For one thing, the once vitally important U.S. savings-bond program seems ripe for attrition. Savings bonds finance only 4% of the national debt, down from more than 20% in their heyday, and officials are in deep discussion about how to keep the program relevant...