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Back in 1995, then Defense Secretary WILLIAM PERRY said building the shield would take three years of research and development and another three of construction. The shield, he vowed, "will be ready for production in three years and, if the decision is made, could be ready for deployment three years after that." Summing up, he added, "So we are about...six years away from deployment of national missile-defense systems." After a year, Perry said the U.S. was still six years away from a national missile umbrella. "Our plan is to complete the development of a national missile-defense system...
...must shortly be sent to Princeton. He names it Yonder (that's the easy part), learns to hoist anchor, percolate about the harbor, and dock again. Also to sail a bit, and what to do when the diesel fails: call for a tow, then call the diesel wizard, then deploy checkbook. After several seasons of costly maintenance, Coomer's master shipwright assumes a long face, reports rot and says the author had better decide how much he loves the boat...
...binding treaty that gives Moscow a veto over NATO expansion, may mean NATO leaders will call the Russian President on the carpet at the signing ceremony in Paris on May 27. Despite NATO?s hot denials, Yeltsin continues to insist that NATO has agreed it will never deploy nuclear or conventional forces on the territory of new East European members. "He's upsetting not only NATO members, but prospective members, because he's making it sound as if Eastern European countries would be second-class members, as if Russia has veto power over the conditions of their participation," says Nelan...
...near Mount Kenya recently, Halmi hired a group of Masai tribesmen as extras. Just as the scene in which they were to participate had begun shooting, a busload of American tourists stopped to ogle and photograph the tribesmen, angering the actors-for-a-day and delaying production. Rather than deploy a minion to settle the matter, Halmi approached the bus in his Hummer, "to make like Arnold Schwarzenegger," he gleefully explains, and proceeded to bluff the sightseers into thinking they were courting unspeakable peril if they didn't make peace with the natives. Goodwill could be rendered quickly, Halmi decreed...
...angiogenic, the tumors become very dangerous and potentially lethal [and grow aggressively,]" Folkman said. "The proteins which the tumor cells deploy to recruit the vascular endothelial cells began to be identified 12 years...