The problem with looking for supporting analysis is that we can probably find it (we have Big Data and a myriad of analytical techniques).

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The Navy, driven to meet a near-term requirement contained in a dramatically changing national ballistic missile defense (BMD) strategy, has, without any supporting analysis, chosen to back-fit and concurrently build more of the 30-year-old-design Aegis Arleigh Burke class DDG51 destroyers with only the most basic BMD capability.

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Data from the last nine years of the MLS playoffs were used within the analysis supporting the above conclusions.

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It appears that it was only late in the analysis that the illegality was remembered and thus not all of the supporting work has been changed to agree with the top of the report.

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Consumption, which accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. GDP, rose in July, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, suggesting a pickup in activity that could be fundamental in supporting what has been a weak economic recovery.

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