91.   It lets their defense industry pals talk up Pentagon wish lists on Capitol Hill, even as they sign over their fat campaign checks to the lawmakers.

92.   It also combines two major players in a defense industry that is coping with the end of Cold War prosperity by consolidating rapidly into three or four giant companies.

93.   It was the second time in a year that the Pentagon and Justice Department had quashed a major takeover in the defense industry on antitrust grounds.

94.   It is going to be an interesting couple of years before the defense industry can declare that for it, too, peace is at hand.

95.   It saw the bottom fall out of real estate and a huge shrinking of the aerospace and defense industries.

96.   Its sophisticated defense industry makes retransfers difficult to track.

97.   Kaman wants to sell the subsidiary because rapid consolidation of the defense industry has forced it to compete with fewer large companies.

98.   Kaminski, who recently left the Pentagon, has been a strong supporter of consolidation of the defense industry.

99.   Last month, the Norwegian government said it was considering initiating talks with other Scandinavian governments about merging their defense industries.

100.   Klee says that the computer software formulas are similar to those used by the defense aerospace industry and aviation tracking systems for sorting out jet aircraft.