Word: exhaustion
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...shortages in other things that are necessary for the economy--those things are brought about in part because for the last 30 years we've plowed so much of our resources into military expenditures. And we can't go on that way, simply because we're going to exhaust both our resources and our economy if we continue to make investments at the level we're now doing on the military front...
...addition, the SAM6 is equipped with a heat sensor that can guide it to the aircraft's hot jet exhaust pipe. Finally, in its beam-riding mode, the SAM6 can be directed by its operator, who keeps the aiming dot of an electronic gun sight on the attacking aircraft. That is all it takes to send the missile accurately along a radar beam to the target. To make matters even worse for the enemy, the frequency of the missile's radar systems can be changed quickly, making it difficult to jam or confuse them with electronic countermeasures...
...implications of the theory of general relativity is that when giant stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, they collapse so suddenly under their own tremendous gravity that their remnants are compressed into a sphere only about two miles or so across and weighing trillions of tons per cu. in. The gravitational field of the sphere is so intense that no light can escape from it-thus the name "black hole...
...would not suddenly be snuffed out in the middle of the day unless the heavens were trying to say something important....When we'd stepped off the plane at Nouakchott, several people thought they were feeling exhaust from the airplane engines. But it was just an average Mauritanian afternoon, 114 and breezy....Much of the equipment Kern had brought to Africa was homemade, including a coelostat that incorporated a bicycle chain, part of a gun mount, and lead from melted car batteries.... Total eclipses are the ideal time for Vulcan hunts, since the sun is high...
Kazana said that the center will exhaust its original $100,000 operating fund by the end of August and may be forced to sell $50,000 worth of securities from its endowment to meet operating expenses...