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Tony Bennett
“Cold Cold Heart”

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“Pentagon Wants Bigger Army, Marine Corps”

The Pentagon is seeking more than $20 billion in its 2009 budget to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps as the military struggles to fight wars on two fronts, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The proposed budget, which will be unveiled Monday, will call for [...]

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You’re fired!
In a shower of pink slips, U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet that the economy is grinding to a halt if it hasn’t already toppled into recession.
Conditions are deteriorating, according to the latest employment snapshot by the Labor Department, which showed [...]

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Up in smoke:
ITT Federal Services International, a defense contractor hired to maintain battle gear for U.S. troops in Iraq, repeatedly failed to do the job right.
Combat vehicles ITT declared as repaired and ready for action flunked inspections and had to be fixed again. Equipment to be sanitized for return to the United States was found [...]

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