"However, the 2009 request may be the peak for defense spending".
According to Gary Huth, a State Labor Department economist in Hicksville, about 170,000 manufacturing employees worked on Long Island in 1986, at the peak of defense contracting.
They seem pertinent to the Afghan subcontractors whose financial situation was laid bare by SIGAR's letter yesterday, at a moment of peak opulence for defense contractors here at home.
Robinson combined a very high offensive peak, with strong defense, versatility, speed and base running acumen-he was successful in more than 75percentt of his stolen base attempts during the years for which data is available.
Another microarray study of transcriptomic changes in soybean revealed a peak in most defense related genes at 24 hours post inoculation (hpi) with P. sojae[ 24].
These genes related to the first line of defense peak within the first 6 h of infection and remain significantly up-regulated throughout the initial 48 h of infection.
The Colts' offense is operating at peak capacity, and with their defense exceeding expectations, the Colts are currently the best team in the N.F.L.
Our soldiers and their families work hard to stay in peak physical shape for the defense of our nation, and one major part of staying in shape is eating right.
This is well captured by our main result: antiphase cycles occur when prey biomass and prey defense cycle synchronously, so peaks in prey biomass coincide with peaks in defense.
Carlyle has reduced its holdings in the aerospace and defense industries, from a peak of about 20percentt of its overall portfolio in the 1990s to about 6percenttodayaccordingding to the firm.
At the Olympic track and field trials in July, Jones seemed distracted from her public defense and not in peak form after returning from a year off for a pregnancy and the birth of her son.
