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...that would loiter, invisibly, over the battlefield before unleashing a Hellfire missile on an unsuspecting target. The Gulf War marked the debut of precision-guided munitions, and in Vietnam helicopters came of age. World War II gave us the horror of nuclear weapons, and World War I introduced the tank. If there's a second Gulf War, get ready to meet the high-power microwave...
...rear end of the vehicle sags due to the weight of the tank in the trunk,” wrote HUPD fleet manager Frank DiRienzo in an e-mail to Brown. “I put two other people in it besides myself and it just about left the bumper on the sidewalk...
...grown significantly and that its fastest-growing segment is composed of families. Homeless parents and their kids made up roughly 15% of the case load in 1999--or, if you count every head, about 35% of all homeless people, according to the Urban Institute, a liberal D.C. think tank. The TIME survey suggests that population has since increased--registering year-over-year jumps in either 2001 or 2002 (see graphic for individual cities). These families mainly consist of single women with kids, whose greater housing needs, compared with those of single people, make them more vulnerable to rental increases than...
...government ran a federal budget deficit of 3.7%. This year, in order to comply with an order from Brussels to clean up its fiscal act, Germany has raised taxes. "It's stupid," says Jean-Paul Fitoussi, president of the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques, an economics think tank. "How can a country with zero growth implement a restrictive budget...
...April 2002 - when monthly same-store sales grew by an average of 6% - the spending boom was nothing less than phenomenal. But real estate is now facing a slowdown; and like-for-like retail-sales growth fell from 4% in October to 1.7% in December. Should consumer spending tank in Britain, though, the government still has one distinct advantage over its euro-zone neighbors - the ability to spend what it likes without running afoul of Brussels. In 2002, Chancellor Gordon Brown unleashed a raft of spending initiatives that will underwrite GDP growth of almost 2% this year. To listen...