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...DeLay, it is hard to imagine that any lapse was greater than the cozy relationship he allowed to grow between his office and Abramoff. The lobbyist's activities might have stayed under the radar had a newspaper in Alexandria, La., not reported the startling fact that a local Indian tribe was paying Abramoff's associate Scanlon $13.7 million for public relations work. Subsequent investigations uncovered a flood of e-mail between Abramoff and Scanlon, in which they referred to their Indian clients as, among other epithets, "monkeys" and "losers," even as they charged these clients fees that totaled upward...
...certain to insist on restoring them. This was done so that in the resulting "compromise" the House conferees could agree to revive the systems only after receiving assurances that a lid would be placed on their costs. This tactic resulted in continued funding, for example, for the AMRAAM, a radar-guided Air Force and Navy missile that has technical problems, is more than two years behind schedule and is costing about twice the original estimates (now about $450,000 a missile); and for the P-3C Orion, a patrol plane used in antisubmarine warfare (more than $40 million an aircraft...
When Korean Air Lines Flight 007 strayed into Soviet air space in 1983, it was out of radar range of both Japanese and U.S. air-traffic controllers. Soviet controllers could have reported the plane's intrusion by sending a message over their teletypewriter system, which was their only means of contacting their Japanese and American counterparts. They did not. Instead, the Soviet military concluded that the plane was on a spying mission and shot it down, killing all 269 people onboard. To prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy and improve air-traffic communications in the North Pacific, diplomats...
...ground swivels and blows them out of the sky. It looks like a brilliant performance by one of the Pentagon's most controversial new weapons, the Sergeant York division air-defense gun, known as the DIVAD. In a test last year, the gun's laser-and-radar guidance system could not even hit a stationary helicopter, one of many embarrassments for the problem-plagued system. This time, claimed the contractor, Ford Aerospace, the weapon destroyed "six of seven high-performance aircraft...
...poor"--people earning less than $2 a day who make up three-fourths of the world's population--could contribute an additional $13 trillion in annual sales to the global economy, if only companies would drill deep enough to reach them. "Nearly 4 billion people have been under the radar screens of large companies up until now," says Prahalad, author of the book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. "The moment you create the opportunity for them to consume, you create the world's largest markets...