Word: armoring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With only four miles to go, my legs felt both like heavy steel armor and jelly...
...drone's benefits are obvious: without people aboard, costs can be slashed because expensive life-support systems such as oxygen supplies, ejection seats, fire-suppression systems and armor aren't needed. The nimbleness and speed of today's fighters aren't limited by weak engines or fuselage stress limits but by the human body's inability to withstand high G-forces, a problem that would disappear in a pilotless plane...
...drone's benefits are obvious: without people aboard, costs can be slashed because expensive life-support systems such as oxygen supplies, ejection seats, fire-suppression systems and armor aren't needed. The nimbleness and speed of today's fighters aren't limited by weak engines or fuselage stress limits but by the human body's inability to withstand high G-forces, a problem that would disappear in a pilotless plane...
...This is definitely the White House trying to win back a few points. These issues of arsenic in the water and toxins in the air have provided a faultline for the administration's critics, for late-night comics, for anyone interested in taking a chink out of Bush's armor...
Students plagued by late-night hunger can no longer count on the Kozmo.com couriers to be their knights in orange plastic armor...