Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American officers also grouse that they sometimes have to use smaller bombs than usual to reduce the blast area. "About 1 of every 5 bombs we dropped last night from F-117s were 500-pounders," grumbled a colonel, "and not the 2,000-pounders we have always used." Smaller bombs mean there's less certainty about destroying the target in one attack. And if the pilot has to come back, that increases the risk to him in order to lessen the risk to civilians on the ground--a kind of Disneyland idea of customer service that rankles many war fighters...
...edit on a PC; an analog tape first must be converted to digital, which is cumbersome. Perhaps the best news is this: for the next year, Sony is expected to have the only Digital8s on the market. That may well put pressure on Canon, Sharp, JVC and Panasonic to drop the prices of their standard digital cameras. Let's just hope they do it by Father...
...wasn't bitten by a dog as a kid or raised by cats. It's just that dogs frighten me and kind of gross me out. Last week Mexico City, upon which dogs drop around 120,000 tons of feces a year, appealed to owners to clean up after their dogs because it was causing major health problems. Plus, dogs are the only animals I know of that are sexually interested in breeds 500 times smaller than them. They're worse than frat boys...
...problem. For years, astronomers had noted that light from the nebulae was redder than it should be. The most likely cause of this so-called red shifting was motion away from the observer. (The same sort of thing happens with sound: a police car's siren seems to drop in pitch abruptly as the car races past a listener...
...planes drop atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...