There is a lot of concern there about impact from the sequester on the Iron Dome project, maybe visiting an Iron Dome battery.
New Labour, for example, has been rescued from the possible embarrassment of the collapse of the Millennium Dome project by generous sponsorship from big firms such as Tesco and British Telecom.
Before Prime Minister Tony Blair could even open his mouth to reveal the secrets of Britain's biggest mystery, the public spat between the minister in charge of the Dome project, Peter Mandelson, and its former creative director Stephen Bayley re-ignited on the airwaves.
Crystallex continued its claim in Venezuelan courts even as Placer Dome abandoned the project and the government renationalized it.
Mr Anschutz is bidding for a licence to build the UK's first and only super-casino at the Millennium Dome - a project which Mr Prescott's department was involved with.
Yet the forecasts were, in effect, also endorsed by the commission, which approves grants not just for the Dome but for any millennium project eligible for lottery money.
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Employment group Manpower - which has been vocal in its criticism of the project and sponsors one of the Dome's 14 zones - demanded changes to the management team.
Until 2006, money also goes to the Millennium Commission, which has supported the Eden Project and the much-criticised Millennium Dome at Greenwich.
Some companies have withheld all or part of their multi-million pound sponsorship until the Dome is on a more solid footing, concerned that negative publicity and the project's financial troubles could damage their reputations.
The development is the latest Millennium Commission-funded project to be surrounded in controversy, following the financial woes of the Dome and the structural problems of the Millennium Bridge, which was designed by Lord Foster, the architect of the British Museum's new glass roof.
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