1.   Alliant Techsystems Inc., a munitions maker, topped decliners.

2.   Companies like Alliant Techsystems, a munitions maker in Minneapolis, and Boeing, which makes highly accurate bombs and cruise missiles, would be candidates for new orders.

3.   Munitions makers can also count on new orders for items like cruise missiles and other kinds of precision guided weapons.

4.   Pacifists and revisionists blamed France, England and greedy munitions makers rather than Germany for World War I, encouraging the sleep of vigilance.

5.   Senior military officials said they were considering having precision-guided munitions makers accelerate production of weapons, including Tomahawk cruise missiles.

6.   That creates an enormous opportunity for all manner of profiteers, from former munitions makers to bloodheads, some of whom have been known to hold donors captive.

7.   The U.S. proposal is open to the obvious criticism that it would channel sales of antipersonnel mines into the more expensive models produced by U.S. munitions makers.