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...Pentagon doesn't much like missile defense, because it's going to suck a lot of money from things they consider more important priorities - tanks, troops, ships, things they can move around on the battlefield. Guys in the Pentagon will talk about missile defense as pie-in-the-sky, but that won't really weigh on the bureaucratic outcome. That will depend primarily on the President, and whereas he kept out of the issue of remaking the military, leaving it to Secretary Rumsfeld, who ultimately punted, he's more likely to press hard for missile defense. And if he does...
DirecTV--owned by General Motors' Hughes Electronics Corp.--would be the missing piece of the planetary puzzle for Murdoch's News Corp. Its Sky Global Networks has 85 million subscribers spread across Europe, Asia and Latin America. DirecTV would deliver the U.S. in a bold way. The addition of DirecTV's 10 million households would make Murdoch No. 1 in satellite TV in the U.S., and No. 3 in pay TV, behind only AT&T's cable operations, with more than 14 million cable subscribers, and AOL Time Warner, with almost 13 million. (AOL Time Warner is the parent...
While an unabashedly capitalist institution such as my school might segregate foreigners through income, the Chinese government—the government that bats American spy planes out of the sky and would have blamed the entire West had Beijing lost the 2008 Olympics—does the same when it hires foreign teachers for its schools and maintains segregated prisons and dorms...
...good news is the market rarely taketh away without a little giveth to go with it, and there?s one upside to a housing chill. Those bond traders might become convinced that the sky is falling and stop worrying about inflation - bringing mortgage rates back down and putting some fuel back into the housing sector and some refi money back into consumers? pockets...
...news, of course is for that to happen, the sky - and the roof - would have to fall first. And the prospect of a spring rebound could get buried in the wreckage...