Word: decoyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kelly as a decoy and exploit our other scoring possibilities," explains Scalise. Freshman Karin Pinezich and junior Ann Baker have been potent on offense lately, and Vermont just doesn't have enough players to double-team everyone...
...years as we take to develop an ABM system, the Soviets will use to think up a means of circumventing it. Every proposed version of the "star wars" shield has an easily exploited weakness. The Russians could preemptively attack laser satellites. They could confuse tracking systems with thousands of decoy rockets. They could fire submarine-based missiles on low trajectories which couldn't be spotted. Of course, we might be able to solve some of these problems. But the Russians would have a continuous incentive to think up new ones, and we could never be sure that our system actually...
...poaching has become a growth industry, taken over by gangs who shanghai salmon the way more conventional bandits rob banks. Today's poachers use radio-equipped lookouts to check for water bailiffs, sophisticated systems of decoy cars to deploy their forces and middlemen to market their take. The object: big catches, swiftly and efficiently distributed. The only weapon the government men have is a truncheon, which, under antiquated rules, can be drawn only in self-defense. The poachers, meanwhile, sport a growing assortment of weapons...
...give the two workers a change to rescue their integrity, the inspectors sent along a "decoy" package of KitKat candybars. An impartial observer might question the decorum of this move, reminiscent of recent Washington scams involving FBI agents dressed as Arab sheiks offering U.S. Congressmen large sums of money for their votes on crucial issues. The strategy also seems doubtful--Snickers or perhaps peanut M&Ms would seem like better choices. But despite these drawbacks, the scam succeeded. Wilson and Ferguson could not resist the urge familiar to every late-night paper writer. They decimated the package of KitKats...
Defense against such weapons is, as the sinking of the Sheffield and General Belgrano attest, not easy. Modern torpedoes like the Tigerfish can be avoided only by throwing out decoys like big air bubbles, using acoustic countermeasures like sonar jamming or, better yet, sinking the attacking submarine. But deep-diving nuclear attack submarines and the noiseless Tigerfish are hard to detect until it is too late. Similarly, the Sea Skua and Exocet antiship missiles are almost impossible to evade. A would-be victim can use electronic countermeasures like radar jamming to confuse the attacking missile's guidance system...