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...cost. Even minus their hefty development cost, the first batch cost more than $1 billion a plane. But Northrop's new price tag is dubious, and the bargain questionable. Defense experts expect the final price to balloon. More important, U.S. taxpayers could be buying a flying white elephant with scant strategic value because the key weapons it requires to justify the investment don't exist...
...give the stalled negotiations a push forward. After his four hours of talks, Clinton claimed he had done that -- at least in private. "We've made some progress today," he said, "the details of which I'm not at liberty to discuss." Though evidence of such progress was scant, Rabin politely agreed there was some. Syrians and Israelis alike told Clinton they wanted peace and would work to achieve it. That was slightly promising and probably about the best Clinton could have hoped for his first time around...
Woodstock '94 had recycling bins, a solar-powered "Eco Village" and eco-conscious Birkenstockers, but the event was bad news for Mother Earth. A month after the show, Ulster County, New York, authorities say the show's organizers recycled a scant 2 percent of their 15,000 tons of refuse. Promoter Woodstock Ventures risks up to $4,000 a day in fines, since state law says much of the mess can't go in landfills...
...Fair may be gimmicky, but it is also street-smart, chatty and instructive, as well as the best reprise of the 1992 campaign likely to see print. While overly charitable to their candidates, the authors are meticulous and nonideological about the political narrative. There are, to be sure, scant revelations. Mary and James have future careers in politics and remain chary about violating trust in the quest for truth...
...other amenities. Most critical is the housing crisis from bauble to municipal bauble along the glittery necklace of Rocky Mountain resorts. Here, each square foot of real estate today fetches a ransom. Gone to outrageously priced condos are the apartments the help used to rent -- and there is scant room left to build more. The reason is location, location, location: these picturesque hamlets beckon and charm and cost the earth because they are usually isolated and they often cannot grow, surrounded -- especially in the Rockies -- by federal lands that are vertical. And where the private land flattens out sufficiently...