The cut in corps numbers came now because the deadline for renewing contracts is Feb. 28.
The pastor, the steelworker and about 40 others slowly made their way up the street, past the house with the four-car garage, as an international press corps numbering about 50 chronicled every step.
Most B Corps, which number about 1,500 in 42 countries, are small and medium private businesses, such as Patagonia and Ben & Jerry's.
Firefighters evacuated the injured and doused the burning S.U.V., which carried a diplomatic-corps registration number.
The two corps together numbered more than a quarter of a million men.
Google's lobbying corps — now numbering more than 100 — is split equally, like its campaign donations, among Democrats and Republicans.
Infantry, cavalry and armoured corps personnel numbered just 62,097 men, while engineers, signals and the medical services remained the same, albeit as part of a much smaller Army.
"And in Libya, it's a thug corps". The exact number of paramilitary forces at Gaddafi's disposal is unknown.
They weren't among the almost 2,400 delegates to the convention, though; nor were they from the press corps, said to number 15,000.
Across the officer corps, a large number of senior military leaders share Admiral Fallon's broad assessment that a war with Iran would bring unexpected and, perhaps, unmanageable, risks elsewhere in the Muslim world and around the globe.
