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After the shelling stopped, a Navy SEAL (Sea, Air and Land) commando team in a rubber Zodiac raft tied explosives to the pilings that remained and demolished them. Five miles away, a second SEAL team boarded another oil platform abandoned hours earlier by Iranians and destroyed communications and other equipment...
...focused on the 50% of the nearly $300 billion defense budget that goes for hardware, operations and maintenance. What deserves even more attention than the notorious price gouging by defense contractors on spare parts (one toilet seat: $750) is the wasteful proliferation of large-scale weapons systems. A raft of new, expensive hardware is coming out of research, ready to go into production. One package of eight strategic systems (total cost: at least $250 billion) includes the Stealth bomber and three missile systems: the submarine-launched D-5, the Midgetman and the Peacekeeper (formerly MX). Congress should seriously reconsider whether...
...financial analysts and journalists from 25 countries who are expected to attend the $25 million, eleven-day affair. To house the overflow crowd, the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Star/Ship Oceanic luxury liners were docked alongside the spacious World Trade Center on Boston Harbor, where DEC put up a raft of electronic exhibits and unveiled a new line of machines in the midsize or "minicomputer" class...
...nasal caution, times like this?). Dodge a kamikaze bicycle messenger and step under the marquee. On the left, in a glass display case -- the Wall of Fame -- are the shoes of the famous hoofers who have cut a rug here. Betty Grable. Ruby Keeler. Anthony Quinn. Eleanor Powell. George Raft (tiny feet). Gregory Hines (boats). The cashier is on the right. The tariff is eight bucks. The ticket taker says sure, he'll get the manager. Call him Mr. Adam, on account of his surname starting in Little Italy and ending in Greece (Giannopoulos...
...Dongen's N.A.W. can delve into a computer bank that lists 10,000 members who have ranked how well they know legislators on a scale from "slightly" to "very well." The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, meanwhile, is organizing a mammoth letter-writing campaign to Congress. Its message: the raft of legislation would drive up business costs while American companies are already losing markets to foreign competitors...