Review of Budget Proposals for Fiscal Year 1988: Hearings Before the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, Deel 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987 |
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Pagina 109 - My presentation will cover the budget requirements of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, education programs and the Office of Information for the Armed Forces. Representatives of other activities included in the operation and maintenance, Defense Agencies appropriation have already made or will make individual presentations to you.
Pagina 704 - STATEMENT OF HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK Mr. RANGEL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Pagina 336 - Eisenhower, who broadcast a iressago to the world in February 1957. The Reagan message 26 years later was delivered from the same VOA facility that Eisenhower used — with the same electronic equipment. VOA has undertaken a modernization program in recent years, but it still has a long way to go. The VOA has six superpower transmitters; the Soviet Union has 37. The VOA broadcasts in 42 languages; Radio Moscow in 80. We can easily win the battle of ideas, if we have the resources to do so. After...
Pagina 868 - NAM is a voluntary business association of over 13,500 companies, large and small, located in every state. Our members range in size from the very large to over 9,000 small manufacturing firms that each have less than 500 employees.
Pagina 155 - I cannot help but be alarmed by the signal which a continuing zero or negative growth defense budget would send to both our allies and potential opponents in Europe.
Pagina 157 - This program is necessary to offset serious disadvantage on the battlefield and to counter offensive and defensive asymmetries strongly favoring the Soviet Union. From the perspective of the American fighting man in the field, it is difficult to overemphasize this request.
Pagina 108 - Our worldwide contract audit activities are conducted by* the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) . DCAA's mission is to perform all necessary contract audits for DoD and to provide accounting and financial advisory services on contracts and subcontracts.
Pagina 330 - About 40 percent of our exports go to the developing countries. The accepted rule of thumb is that $1 billion of exports is equivalent to about 26,000 jobs. The developing countries have accounted for more than half of the growth in US exports since 1975. Approximately 1 out of every 20 workers in our manufacturing plants and 1 out of every 5 acres of our farmland produce for Third World markets. I might add that 2 out of every 5 acres of our farmland produce for export. That's how interrelated our...
Pagina 144 - Deter wars rather than fight them. This strategy of deterrence aims to make war or the threat of war too risky for any hostile power or combination of powers to contemplate. - Optimize our collective security arrangements and forward defense posture through combined defense planning with allies in Europe and Asia and through vigorous security assistance programs. At the heart of this policy is the principle that the capabilities of the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts. In turn, our...
Pagina 156 - Too often, we ate inclined to count people as the intangible factor in the military balance. So I believe it is useful to cite one area where your support has paid extremely high dividends. We are the best in the world at operating and supporting complex weapon systems under night/all-weather conditions. I see this in all of the Services and count it as one of our strongest cards in managing crises and deterring our adversaries. It all flows from the talent, high morale, and competitive spirit of...