In sectors such as defence, aerospace and pharmaceuticals, government buyers have worked closely with industry.
Officially, the point is to strengthen the heart of Europe, in areas such as defence, among those countries that wish to participate.
Colleagues in the Democratic Party, however, say he is more conservative when it comes to issues such as defence spending and family values - which could help to win over wavering Republicans.
The Lib Dems say that they would like the Parliament to control all taxation north of the border, sending a portion south to Westminster to pay for common British functions such as defence.
In response, Monitor plans to invest some savings in promising regions such as the Middle East, and in new areas such as its defence practice.
Leaders of respected environmental outfits such as Environmental Defence and the World Resources Institute have recently made positive noises about nuclear power as part of a response to global warming.
Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent analyst in Moscow, says Russia wants concessions on issues such as missile defence and NATO enlargement.
In principle, November's agreement paves the way for co-operation on other areas of policy, such as European defence and security, where Lib Dems feel that Mr Blair has anyway stolen some of their best ideas.
The reaction in France was more muted, perhaps because the agreement carefully avoids any of the visionary language about European architectures that excites French imaginations, but which many British Conservatives, such as the defence secretary, Liam Fox, viscerally loathe.
The UK's shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said in the Commons he welcomed the agreements in principle but asked for assurances that they would not limit the UK's ability to act independently "in all circumstances" - such as the defence of overseas territories.
But advocates of European self-sufficiency, such as the French defence analyst Nicole Gnesotto, say the campaign against Serbia has brought home some hard truths about the continent's defence.
Third, big consumers of components, such as car and defence equipment manufacturers, have spawned clusters of small- and medium-sized suppliers, whose workers seem particularly prone to starting up on their own.
Then, the best technocrats, who could move easily between public and private sector, applying the same top-down problem-solving skills to both, were people such as Robert McNamara, recruited as defence secretary by John F.
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Mr Wahid has already taken some important steps, such as appointing a civilian defence minister.
Mr Obama said he would have more "flexibility" on difficult issues such as the US missile defence plans after November's election.
The army also needs funds for infrastructure, such as a sprawling Afghanistan Defence University now being built on the edge of Kabul.
Shadow Treasury chief secretary David Heathcoat-Amory said the amendment would give those accused of market abuse such as insider dealing a defence if they could show they complied with the City Code.
Mr Gates wants a regular forum at which the two sides discuss issues such as nuclear weapons, missile defence, cyber-warfare and space.
Leading defence companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have been changing their profile too, turning themselves into something more than makers of fighters, missiles and rockets.
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As companies seek to win credibility for their efforts at reducing emissions, they are inviting mainstream green groups such as Washington's Environmental Defence Fund to advise them and to keep them honest.
Animal bodies thus react to molecules such as resveratrol by activating their own defence mechanisms.
Japanese defence contractors, such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, are itching to expand co-operation in other military areas as well.
If it's not buying a nuclear deterrent from a US company, it's working with fellow Europeans on some rather significant defence equipment, such as fighter aircraft.
Terms such as "probiotics" and "immune defence" would no longer be allowed in food supplement advertising.
Besides, Mr Sharon has been prepared to countenance such a retreat before: in 1982, as defence minister, he ordered the evacuation of 5, 000 settlers from the Sinai desert, as part of a peace deal with Egypt.
It has seized on natural disasters, such as earthquakes, to play an active civil-defence role.
Perched on the edge of Europe near Russia, they backed things that give Eurosceptic nations, such as Britain, the shivers, for example a stronger defence role for Europe.
However, it is surely over-stating the case to argue that it is only post-negotiation that such issues as the control of oil and the organisation of defence would or could be determined.
Yet Japan's Self Defence Forces began participating in peacekeeping missions, such as to Cambodia and East Timor, in the 1990s.
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This has managed to mutate to resist even the antibiotic described as the "last line of defence" against such staph infections.
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