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...expected price of SOTAS, a helicopter-borne radar system designed to spy out troop movements far behind enemy lines, more than tripled from $8.7 million to $28 million per unit. Many Congressmen fear that unless military outlays are controlled by some strictly enforced set of priorities, they will soar far beyond the projected $1.5 trillion. What if the defense bills fall due in an economy still beset by high unemployment and inflation? Then, says Georgia's Sam Nunn, a Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a vociferous advocate of a stronger defense, "it won't take the public...
...ways of the bureaucracy could at the same time be so clumsy. Without stating it, Haig supplies an answer. Having lived so much of his life on a staff, he overemphasized that aspect of his work when he took on a job in which he was supposed to soar above squabbles over turf. He is changing his ways, he says...
Normally, the start of the summer travel season means just one thing to the U.S.'s $33 billion airline industry. As vacationers pack up and jet away by the millions, bookings rise, revenues soar and profits scoot skyward. This season the travelers will be there once again. But the nation's leading air carriers are awaiting the throngs of eager customers with attitudes ranging from uncertainty to downright trepidation. At every turn, the once proud commercial aviation business is being buffeted by economic change, and the shake-out is altering the whole structure of U.S. air travel...
...first film. Since the major change in the credits is the substitution of Richard Lester for Richard Donner as director, it seems logical to single out the man who did A Hard Day's Night and The Three Musketeers as the one responsible for making Superman soar...
...Eden, he condemned Adam and Eve to go to work. Work has never recovered from that humiliation. From the beginning, the Lord's word said that work was something bad: a punishment, the great stone of mortality and toil laid upon a human spirit that might otherwise soar in the infinite, weightless playfulness of grace...