Most British casualties have been the result of increasingly sophisticated roadside bombs, though 'hostile fire' brought down a transport plane last year, killing 10 people.
While prescription medicines are luring thousands of Americans into addiction, many are then moving on to heroin as a result of increasingly tight restrictions around painkillers such as oxycontin.
Last week Matalan reported full-year profits of £36m, down from £80.5m, a result of increasingly tough competition, poor sales, especially of homeware, and a £20m write-off on a new IT system.
Dr. Mark Publicker, an addiction medicine specialist in Portland, said that repeated overdoses were often the result of increasingly potent heroin, especially when combined with drugs like fentanyl and sedatives, producing a lethal cocktail.
Those changes were the result of increasingly sophisticated, well-financed and well-organized efforts by the corporate and financial sectors to tilt government policies in their favor, and thus in favor of the very wealthy.
The need to develop a knowledge sharing culture became critical as a result of increasingly complex missions, closeout of the Shuttle Program, and a new generation of engineers entering the workforce.
