"There's going to be some investor trepidation, " said Christian Busken, a real-estate analyst for Fund Evaluation Group, which advises institutional clients.
In fact, as the Times account grudgingly documents, Feith's Counterterrorism Evaluation Group did nothing more than subject available classified data to an independent review.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: America is indebted to Douglas Feith
Feith and two Pentagon offices that reported to him at an early stage in the war on terror, the Counterterrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: America is indebted to Douglas Feith
The independent evaluation group's report is to be considered this week by the World Bank executive board, which is reviewing Wolfowitz' role in the arrangement of a pay and promotion deal for a female companion at the bank.
There's been criticism about the Office of Special Plans and the Counterterr orism Evaluation Group that operated in the office of Undersecretary Feith, that the office cherry-picked information in order to build a case for going to war with Iraq.
The World Bank's in-house "watchdog, " an entity called the Independent Evaluation Group, recently lambasted Doing Business, claiming that there was no significant relationship between the publication's indicators and economic growth rates, even though the countries with the lowest rankings usually have the worst long-term records for economic growth.
Ikea later issued a terse press release stating that the information was incorrect, based on an evaluation of the entire Ikea Group.
But a bigger leap was just announced: The jointly funded Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation and Assessment (ASTRAEA) group in the U.K. is going to begin autonomous flight trials using a 19-seat Jetstream 31 commuter aircraft.
The company, which in August said it was considering spinning off or selling the business, known as the Personal Systems Group, now says it has completed its evaluation of alternatives and decided to keep the status quo.
The NTSB recommended the National Air Racing Group Unlimited Division require aircraft owners in the unlimited class to provide an engineering evaluation that includes flight demonstrations and analysis prior to a race.
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