Word: deployments
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...bogeyman in Pyongyang. North Korea's missile program is Exhibit A in the case for building a national missile defense, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for one, has spent much of the past five years talking up the imminent missile threat from Pyongyang as a reason to hurry the deployment of a missile shield. If North Korea's missiles could be negotiated away for a couple of hundred million dollars in aid, that might seem a more appealing option to many on Capitol Hill than spending billions to deploy a missile shield...
...metallic wings. Mylar petals sprout from it--though the prototype used in the April launch will have just two petals. Mounted atop a reconfigured Russian ICBM and launched from a sub in the Barents Sea, the Cosmos 1 will fly to an altitude of 260 miles, where it will deploy the wings and float for a minute or so. If all goes well, the wings will then be jettisoned and the sphere aerobraked back to Earth, its bounce-down on Russian soil cushioned by air bags...
...town hall meeting held last night in Science Center D, representatives from Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) announced a plan to deploy a firewall that would block all attempts by outside computers to connect to computers on the FAS network...
...Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons--many of whom have undergone various forms of torture and most of whom are being held without trial. And while the accords called for limited withdrawal of Israeli troops from some Palestinian territories, the Israeli military held absolute authority to re-deploy troops in the West Bank if it felt it was necessary--a right which it has not hesitated to use in recent months...
...What exactly does "skipping a generation" mean? For example, does the U.S. go ahead and build the F-22 fighter, even though no other country has anything to match the current generation of U.S. fighter planes, nor the capacity to develop and deploy such a rival in the near term...