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...Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan was marred by a late, rare blemish: a 1992 indictment for allegedly covering up facts in the Iran-contra scandal, which he vigorously denied and for which he was pardoned; in Bangor, Maine. As Reagan's Defense Secretary, Weinberger presided over a $2 trillion peacetime military buildup?the biggest in U.S. history?and backed the controversial, never-implemented Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. After finding himself at odds with Reagan's arms-control negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev, Weinberger retired in 1987. Yet despite his reputation as a dedicated hawk, he opposed excessive military intervention...
...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.Weinberger returned to the nation’s capitol in 1981 to head up the Pentagon and stayed in the job until 1987, serving longer than any secretary of defense except Robert S. McNamara.Administering the largest peacetime defense buildup in history, which totaled $2 trillion, Weinberger saw his nickname change from “Cap the Knife”—an unflattering moniker he had earned for cutting public spending during the 1970s—to “Cap the Shovel.”Renowned as an anti-Soviet hawk, Weinberger explained...
...Reagan was marred by a late, rare blemish: a 1992 indictment for allegedly covering up facts in the Iran-contra scandal, which he vigorously denied and for which he was pardoned; in Bangor, Maine. As Defense Secretary under Reagan, the anti-Soviet hard-liner presided over a $2 trillion peacetime military buildup--the biggest in U.S. history--and backed Reagan's controversial, never implemented Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. After finding himself at odds with Reagan's arms-control negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev, Weinberger retired in 1987. Yet despite his reputation as a dedicated hawk, he opposed excessive military...
...house for compact fluorescents, you would save about 700 lbs. of CO2 (and $90 in energy costs) a year. If every U.S. household swapped three 75-watt regular bulbs that stay on about six hours a day for three 20-watt compact fluorescents, that would save more than 60 trillion lbs. of CO2 per year?equivalent to the annual emissions of 3.5 million cars...
HSBC is more than just a bank. Sure, it's flush with $1.5 trillion in assets, and its canny deposits scooped up pre-tax profits of $21 billion last year. But it's also got a worldwide staff of 250,000, many of whom spend much of their time in the air shuttling among HSBC's 10,000 offices. And that makes the London-based megabank both a global building manager and a major travel company...