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Answering the Coast Guard's SOS
Times Staff WriterTired of its image as a "second-class navy" outgunned by smugglers and stuck in the technological stone age, the Coast Guard hopes to spend more than $10 billion over the next 20 years to replace its fleet of aging ships, aircraft and communications...Tags: Politics, Shipbuilding, Travel, Satellite Technology, White House
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Paychecks raise eyebrows
Sun StaffCharity is big business in Maryland, and some of the providers provide the compensation packages to prove it. Seven of the state's 501(c)(3) organizations - charities, the most common nonprofits - paid more than $1 million in salary and benefits to at...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Montgomery County (Maryland), Business Enterprises, Health, Corporate Officers
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Space plane due in '08, NASA contractors told
Orlando SentinelWASHINGTON - NASA has formally notified the three contractors working on the orbital space plane project that the agency wants the companies to push toward a new deadline of 2008. When the project was proposed late last year, the plan was to have a...Tags: Alabama, Boeing Co., Technology, Rocketry, Contracts
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Environment groups vow to defeat Buhl
Sun StaffThe state's leading environmental organizations announced yesterday that they will try to block Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s nominee to head the Department of the Environment, saying she lacks the experience needed to head the agency. Ten environmental...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Montgomery County (Maryland), Executive Branch, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Politics
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Shuttles unlikely to fly for private companies
Sentinel Staff WriterNASA's space shuttles, sleek and white and elegant in flight, were always intended for far more than government work. From the very beginning, the orbiters were seen as tools for private business. But that vision of reliable space trucks hauling...Tags: Migration, George Washington University, Business Enterprises, Boeing Co., Politics
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Tape might hold key data on shuttle
From Wire ReportsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Salvaged tape from Columbia's data recorder might hold vital information up until just a few seconds before the shuttle disintegrated over Texas, accident investigators said yesterday. While the 9,400 feet of magnetic tape was...Tags: Science, Florida, Nevada, Space Programs, NASA
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Retiring is a time for hefty rewards
Sun StaffWith their seven-figure salaries and even larger bonuses, CEOs can buy some of the finer things in life, and put away a tidy sum for retirement. Often, however, they don't have to. Executive perks in Maryland, according to company filings, include...Tags: Health, Financial Planning, Harvard University, Insurance, Politics
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Report to look at all safety practices
Sentinel Staff WriterDetails of what caused the shuttle Columbia accident will take up only a limited portion of a "very thick" and "multilayered" final report to be written in coming weeks, the investigation panel said Wednesday. Members of the Columbia Accident...Tags: Weather Reports, Weather, Boeing Co., Space Programs, NASA
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Some businesses may profit from attacks
Sun StaffAs customers snatched American flags right out of the box at a jammed Flag Shop in Baltimore's Harborplace, clerk Lena Hamideh struggled to keep pace with the cash-register line and a telephone that rang every 30 seconds. "I need a 5-by-8 USA!" Hamideh...Tags: Services and Shopping, Security, Corporate Officers, Safeway Inc., Politics
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Bush makes defense firms nervous
Sun StaffFew things can rattle the defense industry more than a new American president, so early in last year's election season the Aerospace Industries Association set out to determine which candidate best suited its agenda. Officials made a chart of the...Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Budgets and Budgeting, Boeing Co., Election Day, Washington (U.S. state)
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Who and what to watch in 2001
Places and prospects Housing How the housing sector will perform is critical to the area's economy. New homes drive demand for building materials such as lumber, siding, brick and Sheetrock, and fuel construction and supplier jobs. Consumers buying both...Tags: Health, Insurance, Government Health Care, Inner Harbor, U.S. Airways
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Protective tiles efficient, yet fragile
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe fragile thermal tiles that protect space shuttles on their fiery reentries to Earth's atmosphere are extremely effective in dissipating heat, but they also have a history of problems that make them a constant concern. The focus on the tiles' role...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Space Programs, NASA, Science and Technology, Movies
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