Word: deployable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seats, could lead to lawsuits by people who forget to turn them off or back on. Safety advocates have pressured the industry to make changes to air bags, which have been blamed for at least 45 deaths of small women and children. They are advocating air bags that would deploy with varying amounts of force depending on the crash. The auto industry, meanwhile, has proposed reducing the deployment force of all air bags by 20-30 percent, saying it is the quickest way to address air bag deaths and injuries. But not all injuries can be attributed to air bags...
...quickly. And when loans do go bad--in some parts of the industry, losses run 10% or higher even during good times--in-house or outside collection agencies and networks of "repo men" may be called in. Independent bill collectors alone employ an army of 65,000 people, who deploy everything from computerized phone banks for dialing deadbeats to liens and litigation...
...their fossils were first discovered in the 1700s and mistaken for strange marine creatures or bats, pterosaurs--literally, winged lizards--have remained a perplexing enigma. Did these extraordinary beasts take off by running on the ground or by dropping from a tree? Did they energetically flap their wings or deploy them as passive sails? Did they, like seabirds, nurture their young in large colonies, or did they lead a solitary life...
...news. Contrary to a misconception that flourished in Darwin's day, these impulses did not give this boost to genetic proliferation mainly by furthering the overall "welfare of society"--and certainly not by furthering the "welfare of the species." As a result, humans don't naturally deploy our "moral" impulses diffusely--showering love and compassion on any needy Homo sapiens in the vicinity. We tend to reserve major doses of kindness either for close kin (the result of an evolutionary dynamic known as "kin selection") or for non-kin who show signs of someday returning the favor (a result...
...Trustees can decide how to deploy it," she says...