Even without the political reality that the law will change over the next several years--with or without a scheduled sunset--there is another reason why the overnight hike from zero to 55% isn't going to happen.

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Obviously, if Congress goes further -- with or without a budget summit endorsement of still further defense cuts -- there is every reason to believe that the relatively small number of key prime contractors still in the defense business will decline as well.

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As the tension and the heat inside the overcrowded courtroom built up, Magistrate Desmond Nair made his painstaking way through a summary of the evidence and arguments - with the occasional digression into legal history - without seeming to give prosecution or defence a particular reason for confidence.

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