"Russia will have the right to opt out of the treaty if qualitative and quantitative parameters of the U.S. strategic missile defense begin to significantly effect the efficiency of Russian strategic nuclear forces, " Mr. Lavrov told the AP.

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Beyond that, the Knicks' defense, just 18th in terms of efficiency, wasn't strong from a historical standpoint.

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And he didn't make up for this relatively poor scoring efficiency by performing well in the other areas they measure, such as defense, rebounding and avoiding turnovers.

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Outgoing defense acquisition chief Ashton Carter spent much of the year assuring industry that efficiency would not be achieved by slashing profits, but in fact that is precisely what is happening as new program guidance is issued to bureaucrats and contract terms are revised.

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Those teams, who all play similar styles of defense, rank sixth, fifth and first in the NBA, respectively, in defensive efficiency.

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Regular readers of this blog will remember Petropoulos as one of 51 Climate Corp Fellows who trained with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) last summer and interned with host companies to work on energy efficiency solutions.

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Such efficiency can only be realized if planners can receive -- and bank on -- a reliable projection of the Defense Department's future spending stream.

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