Word: deflections
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Lasers are not perfect weapons. Fog and reflective surfaces tend to diffuse or deflect their beam; they cannot cripple a target unless they focus on it for a sizable fraction of a second-a long time in missile warfare. To accomplish this, precision aiming is required. A study conducted at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico shows that an aiming angle correct to less than six one hundred thousandths of one degree must be rapidly achieved if a laser is to hit a missile 5,000 km (3,100 miles) away. Such precision is beyond existing technology...
...judiciary plank, which proposes that only people who oppose abortion should be appointed federal judges. "The worst plank that has ever been in a platform," railed Percy at a special caucus of the Illinois delegation. But at a Reagan lieutenant's request, two Illinois delegates were prepared to deflect Percy's challenge. The delegation voted by 75 to 27 to table Percy's motion...
...leadership," says Greenstein, permitted Eisenhower to maintain his own dignified aura and personal authority with the nation (a moral authority never even approximately regained by his successors), while actively managing his presidency. Even those garbled answers at press conferences, Greenstein thinks, were a stratagem meant to conceal, soothe and deflect. Once, when Hagerty advised Ike to refuse to answer any questions about the Formosa Straits, the situation being especially tricky then, the President replied: "Don't worry, Jim. If that question comes up, I'll just confuse them...
...Giscard later conceded, the five-hour conversation predictably failed to deflect the Soviets from their determination to maintain control of Afghanistan. Thus the French President gave the impression of being an unsuccessful appeaser, with nothing to show for his efforts. More to the point, Giscard's unseemly rush to meet with Brezhnev unnecessarily widened the breach between Paris and Washington. Even before the trip, the U.S.-French relationship had been stretched to the danger point by what Western Europeans see as Jimmy Carter's overreaction to Afghanistan and the holding of U.S. hostages in Iran. Giscard...
...abstentions show that the Corporation will listen to ACSR's voice when its "moderation" equals no steps against South Africa, but will quickly ignore its recommendations if they step beyond moderation towards responsible action. The Corporation's bald hypocrisy on these resolutions shows it wants the ACSR to help deflect student protest, but would rather it kept its conscience to itself...