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...there been a great push to increase defense spending. Confronted with a massive budget deficit and increasing demands for benefits from an aging society, Tokyo has held fast to an unofficial rule of diverting no more than 1% of gdp to defense-the U.S. spends about 4%-and this year spending will actually fall 0.2% to $40 billion, the fifth straight year of decline. Remilitarization simply isn't in the budget. "If the Cubans tested a nuclear bomb, you can bet American politicians would have to increase the defense budget," says Robert Dujarric, a security analyst with Temple University...
While the best-known fanboys, including Knowles and Garabedian, are caressed by the studios, which invite them to events and film sets and even have publicity divisions to work especially with them, the fanboy effect is most pronounced for smaller-budget releases like Smith's. Shaun of the Dead, 2004's romantic comedy with zombies, became a sleeper hit when horror buffs embraced its zombie-movie in-jokes and morbid humor. Simon Pegg, 37, the British comic who co-wrote Shaun and plays the film's lovelorn zombie hunter, remembers wishing he had someone with whom to share...
...paychecks remained large enough to attract criticism though, and even as Silverman steered Cendant to a profit peak of $2 billion in 2004, investors were unimpressed. So he heeded their grumbling and broke up the company. The hotels became Wyndham Worldwide, rental cars the Avis Budget Group, travel distribution (Orbitz, Galileo) Travelport, and real estate Realogy. Blackstone bought Travelport last year, and now Realogy belongs to Apollo...
...billion Current budget shortfall for meeting the needs of U.S. veterans, according to the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee...
...deal in zero sums,” Harris said, “In an ideal world, there would be a nice campaign and the humanities and social sciences would be taken care of also. We need to grow too.” FAS currently faces a budget shortfall, in part a result of a hiring surge that has significantly boosted its size. The Faculty began expanding in 1999, and since then has grown from 615 to 723—the largest surge in FAS appointments since the 1960s. The majority of those appointments took place within the humanities...