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Raytheon announces plans to eliminate 200 jobs
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.At a time when the aerospace industry is fretful about federal spending, defense contractor Raytheon Co. announced plans to eliminate one of its business units and slash 200 jobs. The Waltham, Mass., company did not say how those cuts will affect its...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Boeing Co., U.S. Military, Manufacturing and Engineering, Science and Technology
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Letters: WMD intelligence -- errors or lies?
Re "The what if's of Iraq," Opinion, March 19 Max Boot claims that the justification of ending Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program for going to war with Saddam Hussein was an error, not a lie. He then assigns much of the blame for the ongoing...
Tags: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, United Nations, Weaponry, Elections
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San Onofre design choices led to nuclear plant shutdown
An executive with the company that manufactured faulty equipment that led to the shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear plant defended decisions made in the design of the replacement steam generators. The company made choices in designing support structures...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Plant Closings, Nuclear Power, Manufacturing and Engineering, Physiology
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US military expands its drug war in Latin America
The crew members aboard the USS Underwood could see through their night goggles what was happening on the fleeing go-fast boat: Someone was dumping bales. When the Navy guided-missile frigate later dropped anchor in Panamanian waters on that sunny August...
Tags: Government, Mexico, Honduras, FBI, U.S. Department of Defense
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White House, defense industry officials meet to discuss cuts
With automatic federal spending cuts set to hit the defense industry on March 1, senior White House officials met with chief executives from contractors to discuss the potential impact. White House spokesman Jay Carney made the disclosure Wednesday...
Tags: Boeing Co., Jay Carney, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Manufacturing and Engineering, White House
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Russian scientists collect, study pieces of meteor
This post has been corrected and updated. See the notes below for details.MOSCOW -- Russian scientists declared Monday that they have found and established the composition of pieces of the meteor that exploded over the Chelyabinsk region last week, injuring hundreds of people and causing millions of dollars worth of damage....Tags: Lakes and Ponds, Manufacturing and Engineering, Science and Technology, Russia, Explosions
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Passionate debate goes on
Last Sunday's Opinion pages offered eight perspectives from local sources on President Barack Obama's recommendations for curbing gun violence in the nation. Today, we share our readers' comments on the issues. End madness I learned to shoot as a...Tags: Government, Personal Weapon Control, Justice System, Barack Obama, Interior Policy
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Obama the decider
A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to oust dictator...Tags: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Martin Dempsey, Muammar Gaddafi, John McCain
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Iraq's bitter lessons
It has been 10 years since then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's U.N. speech on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. I watched the secretary's presentation intently on assignment to Fort Jackson, S.C. that day. The presentation, of course, would make...
Tags: Dick Cheney, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions, Iraq
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On Iran, there's time
On Feb. 26, the United States and Iran will once more resume their diplomatic ritual, in the so-called six-party talks, over Iran's disputed nuclear program. As the two perennial adversaries eye one another, there are competing paradigms about how to deal...
Tags: Iran, Tehran (Iran), Manufacturing and Engineering, Iran's Nuclear Program, International Atomic Energy Agency
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Kerry tackles questions on Iran, Syria, Hagel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Kerry, President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of state, collected pledges of support Thursday and testified at his confirmation hearing that U.S. foreign policy should be defined by a helping hand as well as...
Tags: Susan Rice, Government, Conservation, William McKinley, Ecosystems
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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Plot involves ‘unstoppable force of terror’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comFans anxiously awaiting J.J. Abrams' upcoming “Star Trek Into Darkness” just got a little more information to ruminate over — ......
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