Word: multibillion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expensive unmanned probes beyond Mars. Last week 23 space scientists strongly urged "grand tours" of the outer planets in the mid-1970s. At that time, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto will be so aligned that a spacecraft could sweep past at least three of them in a single, multibillion-mile journey. This rare planetary configuration, the panel noted, will not occur again for another 179 years...
...efficiency expert and auditor at the Pentagon, Fitzgerald has been giving interested Congressmen detailed, inside descriptions of how multibillion-dollar contracts grow between the assignment and delivery dates. Though he has found eager listeners among critics of the military on Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has chosen to treat him as a mildly treasonous pest...
...revoked because of "a computer error." He says that his mail is being opened. One letter even bore the initials and stamp of the "action officer" who had opened it. He still toils quietly in the same windowless, fifth-floor office. Instead of monitoring the costs of the multibillion-dollar C-5A and F-lll, he now spends his time evaluating relatively minor projects. His first assignment was to review construction of a bowling alley in Thailand. His finding: a $100,000 overrun...
...there are risks in deferring deployment for a time, I think they are small. There are also risks in going forward with the system's development," Chayes said, adding that such a delay would also avoid giving new impetus to the multibillion dollar arms race...
...Great Missile Debate" [March 14]: A parched world groans with hunger, our cities broil in the hatreds of the dispossessed, and the Pentagon wants us all to sit under a multibillion-dollar ABM umbrella! And lo, the umbrella is full of holes! So is our national conscience and sense of stewardship...