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 [This Day in U.S. Military History] November 30: The repeating rifle was in full production by 1860, and was in heavy demand during the Civil War, during which Winchester continued to improve the rifle's design by acquiring other patents. He renamed the company the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1866.

[Goldenmarketing.typepad.com] Golden Practices: Strategic Planning: On Seth Godin's blog is a fabulous description of why those firms are stuck in their respective modes. He illustrates it (see graph) but you MUST go to his site to read his whole post. 

[Acm.org] USACM Technology Policy Weblog: With the House of Representatives poised to pass its version of the budget for next fiscal year, USACM joined the computing research community and several IT companies expressing our concern that it does not reflect full funding for the President’s American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI). As readers may remember the ACI provides about a nine percent increase in funding for basic research at the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy Office of Science, and the core labs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

 [Elitzur.blogspot.com] Haggai's Place: Rather stupidly, the Democratic congressional leadership walked right into the trap, opposed Bush's proposals on union-related grounds, and got hammered in the 2002 congressional elections as being against Bush's homeland security proposals--the very idea that he had co-opted from them after spending half a year in severe opposition to it. In terms of Democrat-bashing, Bush never even went as far on Iraq as he did on this issue, when he disgracefully claimed--twice!--that Democrats who opposed his version of the new department were "not interested in the security of the American people."

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