Word: bunkerism
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...bunker-like office in University Hall, a well-trained, tenacious team is devising plans for an international takeover. Armed with flashy pamphlets, milk-chocolate globes, and undergraduate peer advisors, active efforts by the Office of International Programs (OIP) are underway to spread the study abroad mantra...
...part, the Israeli military is strengthening its border defenses and trying to figure out how to crush a guerrilla enemy that fires rockets from deep underground and uses villages and towns as a combat shield. The Israeli air force is retooling its planes for new, U.S.-made 600-pound 'bunker-buster' bombs. Israel also found out that its vaunted Merkava tanks were vulnerable to missile attack, and experts are now experimenting with a new radar device that tracks and shoots incoming projectiles in mid-air. And the Israelis are keeping an eye out for goat-herders and donkeys loaded with...
...long and distinguished literary history. As early as 1826, Mary Shelley--who also wrote Frankenstein--published a novel called The Last Man, in which a plague whittles humanity down to a single final specimen. In Samuel Beckett's play Endgame, crippled wretches crouch in a miserable bunker after some ambiguous, eschatological catastrophe, swapping gallows one-liners as their supplies dwindle...
...guided munitions and laser-targeted bombs--sighted by satellite, spotter aircraft and unmanned vehicles--would do most of the bunker busting. But because many of the targets are hardened under several feet of reinforced concrete, most would have to be hit over and over to ensure that they were destroyed or sufficiently damaged. The U.S. would have to mount the usual aerial ballet, refueling tankers as well as search-and-rescue helicopters in case pilots were shot down by Iran's aging but possibly still effective air defenses. U.S. submarines and ships could launch cruise missiles as well, but their...
...Bush team “micro-target” their campaigning where it would be most effective. Whether you’re an “Anti-Porn Woman” or a “Traditional Marriage Democrat” or an “Archie in the Bunker,” George W. Bush had a specific message for you, delivered ad nauseum to your doorstep. The book gives off two messages about the contemporary political machine: first, that Big Brother really is watching (and that is truly frightening), and second that so-called “values...