Word: arrays
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LADEN with a fearsome array of missiles and electronic gear, the two operational Kresta II-class guided-missile cruisers reflect the skill of Soviet naval architects in putting the maximum punch in the smallest package. Equipped to operate without long range air cover, the 6,000-ton Kresta II has a crew of 500 and a cruising speed of 33 knots. It carries one pair of surface-to-air missile launchers forward and another aft, each pair with its individual radar-guidance and fire-control unit. Towering atop the Kresta II is its big Top Sail surveillance radar, designed...
...penthouse at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, is something from a James Bond movie set. Hughes occupies the western end of the Britannia's ninth floor, attended 24 hours a day by the Mormon Mafia. His suite is decorated with the usual hotel furniture, plus a humming array of several hundred thousand dollars worth of electronic equipment, including a radio-telephone hookup to the U.S. mainland and telephone scramblers to prevent his phone conversations from being bugged. The roof bristles with antennas. At night all eleven of Hughes' balconies are awash with harsh floodlights. Closed-circuit TV cameras lean...
Using this model, Meadows and his team fed M.I.T.'s megacomputer with an array of data ranging from expert opinion to hard, empirical facts -the world's known resources, population growth rates, the incidence of pollution connected with nuclear power plants...
...shaped table in a brand-new Washington office building, are often only short voting sessions. The real business is conducted, statehouse style, in caucuses among members of one or more of the three groups. These are attended not only by the official members, but also by a bewildering array of aides and alternates...
Rodgers controlled the T through much of the match but did not have the finesse to put Briggs away. Briggs used several varieties of lobs to move Rodgers back and dominated the match with his array of finishing shots...