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How much profit is reasonable in time of war? This question lies at the heart of concerns about war profiteering between the period 1898 to 1945. Antiwar advocates believed that eliminating profit from war would prevent wars from beginning. Government...
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A war profiteer is any person or organization that improperly profits from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war. The term has strong negative connotations. General profiteering may also occur in peace time. if...


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Has Gibson Lost Ability to Terrify Us?
8/7/2007: 506 words, approx. 2 pages
SPOOK COUNTRYBy William Gibson Putnam, 371 pages, $25.95 By setting his new novel in the recent past—just as he did in Pattern Recognition (2003)—William Gibson once again suggests that post-9/11 international intrigue has become more bizarre than any futuristic world his famed sci-fi imagination might...
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Auditors: Billions wasted in Iraq war
2/15/2007: 658 words, approx. 2 pages
The U.S. government is at risk of squandering significantly more money in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has already wasted or otherwise overcharged taxpayers billions of dollars, federal investigators said Thursday.The three top auditors overseeing contract work in Iraq told a House committee...
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Auditors: Billions wasted in Iraq
2/15/2007: 661 words, approx. 2 pages
The U.S. government is at risk of squandering significantly more money in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has already wasted, overcharged or poorly tracked $10 billion in taxpayer money, federal investigators said Thursday.The three top auditors overseeing contract work in Iraq told a...
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Ohio mom wants Iraq contractors honored
5/28/2007: 595 words, approx. 2 pages
As the nation pauses on Memorial Day to honor its war dead, one woman is working to keep alive the memory of her son, who was killed in Iraq while serving as a civilian contractor.Donna Zovko wants Americans to remember her son Jerko "Jerry" Zovko...
 


 

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