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Semi-pro tryouts
The Tri-State Buffalos semi-professional football team will hold open tryouts, starting with registration at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Sanford Power Field House in Sioux Falls located at 2215 West Pentagon Place. The Buffaloes from Minnesota, Iowa... -
Our dysfunction quagmire
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is set to begin his second term at a moment when the question is not what great things our nation can achieve but whether our government, in Obama's words, can "stop lurching from crisis to crisis to crisis." The jury is...
Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Economy, Business and Finance, Barack Obama, Elections
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Air Force set to blast off another secretive space drone
An experimental robotic space plane developed for the Air Force is slated to launch Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, fueling an ongoing mystery about its hush-hush payload and overall mission. Air Force officials offered few details about the mission....
Tags: Military Equipment, Landforms, Mountains, Rocketry, Satellite Technology
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Let's not enter a costly war in Syria
Here we go again with a "chemical weapons" bogey man ("New fears over Syrian conflict," Dec. 4). America invaded and is occupying Iraq thanks to alleged weapons of mass destruction, and now Syria is in our gun sights based on similar claims. Don't we know...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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10 things you might not know about doomsday
Either the world will end on Dec. 21, or it won't. Your view depends on whether you believe in a much-publicized but debunked interpretation of the Mayan calendar, or you don't. Here are 10 facts so amazing they may crack the time-space continuum: 1 One...
Tags: Entertainment, Leonard Bernstein, Lenny Bruce, General Electric Company, Radio Industry
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Hunting for savings in military spending
A pair of reports critical of military spending — on items as diverse as health care and dried meat — are part of the latest round of scrutiny of the Defense Department's budget as the fiscal cliff approaches. The nonpartisan Congressional...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Inflation and Deflation, Defense
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Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78
Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf...Tags: The Washington Post, George H.W. Bush, Iran, Armed Forces, U.S. Military
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Ties of family, friendship, service define Army-Navy rivalry
The Baltimore SunKen Niumatalolo noticed the Army guys looking askance as he wound his way through the Pentagon to attend a ceremony for his brother, an Army lieutenant colonel. "I think they recognized me," said the Navy football coach, chuckling. "And I don't think...Tags: United States Naval Academy, Sports, Football, Ken Niumatalolo
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Army-Navy hoopla begins well before the game
The Baltimore SunPhil McConkey wasn't surprised to hear that Navy's mascot had been goatnapped last week, for the umpteenth time, prior to Saturday's Army-Navy football game. That the animal was left tethered to a post, outside of the Pentagon, didn't surprise him either....Tags: Hudson River, John F. Kennedy, Executive Branch, National Football League, ESPN (tv network)
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NSIC makes move
Beginning in 2014, Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference will move its conference basketball tournaments to the under-construction Pentagon at the Sanford Sports Complex in Sioux Falls. The Pentagon will open this fall. The deal will keep the... -
Defense contractors, federal employees join to oppose cuts
A Defense Department funding bill has made bedfellows of two groups more likely to be found in opposite corners: federal labor and federal contractors. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the Professional Services Council (PSC)...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, John McCain, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Senate
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Why Connecticut's Jobs Machine Is Sputtering
The Hartford CourantAs the year draws to a close, Connecticut, more than most states, remains hostage to the fiscal cliff talks in Washington D.C. But even without that bit of Yuletide feuding, the jobs picture here is grimmer than just about anyplace as the nation as a...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Dannel P. Malloy , New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Employment, Labor Markets
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