Word: rebuilding
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This will inevitably force some real cuts in the Pentagon budget, which has grown by an average of 8% since 1981, and could possibly endanger the President's effort to rebuild the nation's defenses. Because certain previously signed weapons contracts are protected from the Gramm-Rudman cuts, the burden will fall precisely where it will do the most harm to the military's readiness to fight: funds for operations, manpower, maintenance, training and supplies. Warns House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, with perhaps a touch of hyperbole: "What you're seeing is a defense budget going down...
Icahn, who has made a fortune by buying and selling stakes in such companies as Dan River and Gulf+Western, hopes to use his deal-making skills to rebuild TWA. He made his first major move three weeks ago, when he persuaded Ozark Air Lines to merge with TWA for $250 million. Among other benefits, the acquisition will sharply increase the number of domestic flights that feed passengers to TWA's overseas routes. Icahn is also thinking about buying a hotel chain and an auto-rental company to combine with TWA. That would enable customers to reserve a plane seat...
...possible, of course, that the new CEO will come in and say, ‘I want to rebuild this [internally], it makes a lot of sense here at Harvard,’ and the ratio actually increases,” he says...
...LaFlamme notes that Summers and his entourage of press officials may be consciously trying to encourage interaction with students in order to rebuild the credibility Summers lost in his dealings with the faculty...
...Gates says the department is looking to rebuild. Two years after the Committee on African Studies merged with the African American Studies department, he says he is on the verge of making three tenured appointments in Af Am, as well as five in African studies in a push to make that program the best in the country...