Word: detectible
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...superpower that it once was. But such overconfidence in U.S. primacy has already been contradicted by recent developments. In response to Washington's uncompromising stance on the NMD, Russia has begun to test-launch its intercontinental ballistic missiles and it has warned that it will equip its hard-to-detect Topol-M missile with multiple warheads if Washington goes ahead with the NMD system. Although it can scarcely afford to pay its soldiers and although its armed forces are barely a carcass of the old Soviet military machine, Russia can still act like a superpower when it wants...
...late 1990s, Haitian-American community activists like Romer had begun to detect the presence of restaveks in Miami. When the activists began to broach the issue on Haitian radio shows and at church gatherings, they first faced denial and even veiled threats of ostracism from some of the community's old guard. But the phenomenon could no longer be covered up after Oct. 2, 1999, when Florida officials working on a tip from neighbors removed a 12-year-old Haitian girl--filthy, unkempt and in acute abdominal pain from repeated rape--from the affluent suburban home of middle-class Haitian...
...There will be a point in time when we can detect these things," he says...
...While some observers detect in her story an echo of British colonial Kenya's decadent White Mischief years (depicted in the 1987 film based on James Fox's book), hers is a decidedly less glamorous version of that early-1940s tale of adultery and murder among the bluebloods. Still, according to Botswanan prosecutors, the Bosch case similarly embraced "the four Ls of murder-love, loot, lust and loathing...
...down to 300 or 400 feet, and launch the emergency procedure. Getting back down takes about five minutes, and something could conceivably move into your path in that time. But your periscope is supposed to give you extended visibility of the area, and your sonar should be able to detect a boat going at 11 knots, as this one allegedly was. So you shouldn't run into anything. But they did. So there are only two options: Either the skipper screwed up, or else it's something we're not familiar with...