The defence minister, Antonio Martino, is also seeing through a plan to abolish conscription and to overhaul the arms-procurement system.
So far, Dr Laschi's robot is not so much an octopus as a monopus, but she plans to correct this over the next two years by adding seven more arms and a control system that can co-ordinate them all.
Could this freedom and investment be combined with a rigorous new system for preventing arms getting into Iraq?
To be fair, the first years of his presidency did witness achievements: bold plans to end conscription and streamline the armed forces, to overhaul France's sickly public-health system, revamp the arms industry, sell off or deregulate swathes of the public sector.
All this as China was still smarting from the spy-plane incident in April, as well as President Bush's decision to allow the biggest sale of arms to Taiwan in nearly a decade and press ahead with a missile-defence system that the Chinese say could destroy international arms-control efforts.
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The Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) is a part of the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and has created robotic arms, better wheelchairs, and other mobility devices.
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Indeed, the regulators worry that programme-making cable companies, which are obliged to make their programming available to their competitors, are loading system costs on to their production arms, thereby passing them on to satellite broadcasters and other cable operators.
But critics say that President Bush isn't giving Mr. Putin enough, that there has to be some sort of compromise here to give Russia a sense that a new American missile defense system wouldn't mushroom into another arms race.
Prosecutor Joe Boyd said Twin M had suffered numerous injuries, including fractures to the ribs, legs and arms and skull damage affecting the brain and central nervous system.
On his way to the meeting, he has met leaders in North Korea and China to agree a common front opposing US plans to introduce a missile defence system, which Russia believes would destabilise efforts at arms control.
Mark Musselman, an executive consultant for McGhee Productivity Solutions, in Denver, says one senior executive he coached was so frustrated after trying to learn a new system that "he was ready to throw up his arms and stop doing it" after a month.
In Baghdad, a high-level official in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior described, also on condition of anonymity, an elaborate system to divert weapons from Ministry of Interior facilities to local arms traffickers and militias.
With ECB President Mario Draghi and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in a monetary arms race to see who can inject more liquidity into the global financial system, global equity markets should enjoy a spectacular finish to the year.
William Crowe find compelling the Soviet argument that no weapon system or area of military activity should be "sacrosanct" from arms control.
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China's concern was that the American missile defence system would lead to increasing use of space for military purposes and fuel an arms race.
Russia has insisted on linking the arms control agreement to the controversial issue of a proposed U.S. missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The Center is also convinced that a far more sure means of providing for the future security of the United States and its allies than arms control would be to achieve the urgent, radical and democratic transformation of the Soviet political and economic system.
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The Swedish arms maker's stall at the Singapore Airshow has a full size simulator of their anti-aircraft defense system, the prosaically named RBS70 NG.
Thefts of firearms have fallen by half since 1991, controls on arms-smuggling from the United States have been tightened, and the police make much use of the database system in their investigations.
As a result, the latter are unwittingly helping to underwrite the unsavory activities of such enterprises - including: China's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, arms build-up, environmental depradation, technology theft (including the Navy's Aegis fleet air defense system and nuclear warhead designs), espionage and slave-labor manufacturing operations, etc.
But Putin says the shield would start a new arms race and has threatened to direct Russian missiles at sites in Europe, should the United States proceed with the system.
By instituting a policy that would eliminate used games for the system entirely, that could be enough to send a lot of people over the edge and into the arms of their competitors for good.
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