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Traditionally, U.S. defense contractors have coped with periodic downturns in Pentagon spending by boosting their military exports. But that is no longer an easy market. Last year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, global arms imports totaled $34 billion in constant 1985 dollars, a 14% decline from the previous year. Among the reasons: the winding down of regional conflicts like the Iran-Iraq war, reduced oil prices and fewer petrodollars for military customers in the Middle East, and a falloff in Third World purchasing power caused by high debt levels...
...experts support the establishment of an industrial policy for defense. New York City Democrat Ted Weiss, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is among a growing school of defense experts proposing "dual-use" planning by military contractors to seek commercial as well as defense applications for their research and manufacturing efforts. Such planning might help ease the boom-and-bust cycles of defense procurement. Perhaps more important, it could help stimulate the development of new high- technology consumer products, strengthening U.S. economic security at the same time defense firms are bolstering national security...
...years ago, research librarian Edwina Barron, 46, rented a condo in Euclid, a mostly white Cleveland suburb. Just a month later, she fled to a bungalow in a quiet, racially mixed neighborhood in Cleveland. Here she describes an encounter with a white neighbor who had been drinking that occurred just one night after she moved into the Euclid condo. The incident persuaded...
...Squibb and Bristol-Myers a consolidation seemed a natural. It would weld Squibb's skill at research and development with its partner's worldwide sales force. "There is pressure on health-care costs throughout the world. U.S. companies are merging to obtain efficiencies of scale," says David Lippman, who follows the industry for Drexel Burnham Lambert...
...Hist and Lit comrades is heading to Puerto Rico to do T-research for the last few weeks of the summer...