The process by which the Commerce Department's decision was made without adequate participation by the Defense Department must be rectified so as to prevent a repetition of this sort of hasty and ill-considered action.

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In late December 1988, in a hasty and ill-considered action, the Reagan Administration approved two separate requests by the Honeywell Corporation and by Baileys Controls to export high technology to the Soviet Ministry of Mineral Fertilizers (MMF).

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These particular snakes are believed to have gotten their start in the Everglades through the well-intentioned, but ill-considered, action of a few Americans who thought they were doing the humane thing by turning their pet pythons loose in the swampy wilderness.

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Following as it does on the heels of hasty and ill-considered decisions on short-range nuclear forces and conventional arms control in the context of the NATO summit, this action suggests that President Bush will increasingly be approaching the tough and technically complex issues of contemporary weaponry and arms control without the benefit of adequate inputs from competent governmental experts.

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