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...Last week marked the 19th anniversary of one such event: the landmark Supreme Court decision handing the US presidency to George W Bush over Al Gore....
...Defence contractors and large industrial groups are already in the political cross-hairs. Technology and finance will follow....
...Eight years later, when he left the White House, the percentages were reversed,” says Mario Mancuso, a former member of George W Bush’s national security team and now a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, the law...
...Not only that, but defence contractors have made sure to spread their work through as many states and congressional districts as possible which ensures they have support throughout Capitol Hill....
...“Consumers have incorporated the political uncertainty, the financial uncertainty, into their emotional lives and moved on, which wasn’t a place they were at in 2012 or 2011,” she says....
...The New Yorker asks why defence contractors like Snowden are paid so much, and subcontractors so little....
...The trial has run in parallel with increasing debate over US surveillance at home and abroad provoked by the leaking of other material by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, who is now in Moscow....
...The US president’s order to release additional information about the operations of the secret court system that must approve surveillance warrants coincided with the nomination of a George W Bush-era official...
...Once an outspoken critic of George W Bush’s “war on terror”, Barack Obama has retained and even extended parts of the national security state he inherited, and in the case of leakers, taken a harder line...
...Cutting defence spending has far less to do with the military’s requirements than with the unholy nexus of power vested in politicians, contractors and campaign contributors....
...But her full-time job is at the lobbying firm the Ashcroft Group, established by John Ashcroft, George W....
...Sub-contractors are also essential to run the fields....
...If C&W has invested millions in a cable system, we want to make sure we’re happy with the sub-contractors and how they’re performing....
...US defence spending has almost doubled since the attacks of September 11 2001 and the invasions of Afgh-anistan then Iraq – even as the budget deficit rose under President George W....
...Nabors Industries , the world’s largest land rig contractor, added 3.5 per cent to $31.56 while Helmerich & Payne gained 2.2 per cent to $68.98. The S&P energy index was up 0.4 per cent....
...These measures will be incorporated into the White House’s proposed annual budget, to be presented in mid-February....
...Afghan officials played down the concerns on Friday, saying that contractors guarding development workers would be exempt....
...The contractors who benefit from tied aid are an obvious obstacle....
...The decision to reconsider the company’s investment in shipbuilding is the latest high-profile move by Mr Bush since he took over as chief executive of the defence contractor in January....
...Public sector contractors were under pressure after Cable and Wireless Worldwide, C&W’s recently demerged UK arm, said government discretionary spending had nearly stopped after last month’s emergency budget...
...C&W Worldwide lost 3 per cent to 74p after Morgan Stanley said the stock had rallied too fast in the wake of its July profit warning....
...Among the gainers, C&W Worldwide was 4.5 per cent higher at 77½p on the back of an upgrade from Goldman Sachs, which said after a survey of purchasing managers that the telecoms group was well positioned...
...C&W Worldwide rose 2.7 per cent to 74p after it won a contract with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office worth £82m over five-and-a-half years....
...C&W Communications took on 3.5 per cent at 60p on day two of an analyst trip to Panama, where management detailed a strategy to turn around its Caribbean operations....
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