Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what happens? Bezos et al. are catching flak from the same quarters for not caring about profits! Hardly a day goes by that some pundit doesn't blast Net managers for spending recklessly or building without an eye toward making money. The now-stale-but-ever-prevalent knock against the e-companies goes like this: Sure, all well and good, but talk to me when they can make money, if ever. These businesses are worthless until they can make a profit...
...blast. I got to hang out in the city. I went to museums and some clubs," says Gargan, who interned in New York City with the New Press publishing company through HCIP...
...didn't get a tan and I didn't get blasted in Cancun, but I had a blast," says Brendan G. Conway '00, a government concentrator in Leverett House who interned with the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C, through the Harvard College Internship Program (HCIP...
...astonishing "bombsight" video. The snippet--about eight seconds long--showed a NATO bomb streaking into an ammunition depot in Kosovo. Milliseconds after the bomb strike, the video showed a large explosion. And then an almost imperceptible snake of flame sneaked outward to a nearby building and triggered a blast so bright and hot it turned the infrared video image from night to day. In pilot jargon, the big bang was a "secondary"--a sign that targeters had picked a site loaded with combustible stuff...
American officers also grouse that they sometimes have to use smaller bombs than usual to reduce the blast area. "About 1 of every 5 bombs we dropped last night from F-117s were 500-pounders," grumbled a colonel, "and not the 2,000-pounders we have always used." Smaller bombs mean there's less certainty about destroying the target in one attack. And if the pilot has to come back, that increases the risk to him in order to lessen the risk to civilians on the ground--a kind of Disneyland idea of customer service that rankles many war fighters...