After a modest up tick this year and in the next few years thanks to Blu-Ray and HD DVD, overall video rentals will begin contracting again in 2010, Holden projects.

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Rather than the usual contracting model that takes several years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (known as "DARPA") asked a small company in Arizona, Local Motors, to fulfill the challenge in a little over four months.

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In late January, the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting convened to investigate the alleged waste of taxpayer dollars spent on Afghan infrastructure projects and to take a closer look at the supervision of government contractors.

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