Word: dependability
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...deliver detailed photographs to ground stations. The National Security Agency's supercomputers can sort through intercepted phone calls with lightning speed. Even clandestine agents overseas can have instant access to CIA officials in the U.S. by using cellular phones. But until last year, the White House had to depend on the "pizza truck " for all this intelligence--even during a fast-breaking crisis. And the pizza truck--the agency's nickname for the delivery van bearing secret reports from the CIA's Langley, Virginia, headquarters--often became snarled in downtown Washington traffic...
...would be used to provide a safety net for indigent retirees and to guarantee benefits to current retirees and those soon to come who have not spent a lifetime accumulating a private account. But younger workers would be on notice that when they reach retirement, they will have to depend largely on what they have built up in their IRAs...
Science fulfills yet another important role. The safety of the citizens of the U.S. and of the citizens of the many countries which rely on the U.S. for support depend on the advanced technology of the U.S. It was thanks to superior technology that the U.S. saved the world from falling into the hands of Nazism and Communism. More recently, the Gulf War was won, with minimum loss of lives, through technological superiority...
...strategy is not without its pitfalls, however. The NAB's efficiency will depend on how fast it can process home directory requests and relay them back to the requester over the network...
...know how the changes will affect thecourse. It will depend on how students like it,"Peterson added...