Word: fla
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...planner at the Pentagon preparing for war--figuring how to move a flotilla of cargo vessels from San Francisco to the Persian Gulf, worrying whether there's enough shrink-wrap at the port in Jacksonville, Fla., to protect the AH-64 Apache gunships and Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters you've just started to fly there from Fort Campbell, Ky.--there's one thing you always want to keep in the back of your mind. And that is the state of the night sky. The U.S. Air Force likes to begin its bombing campaigns on moonless nights, and in Iraq...
...wouldn't this tactic work? I doubt that Iraq or North Korea or any other nation would choose a suicidal approach. The fact that this was the situation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. throughout the cold war might illustrate the idea's workability. ALEX G. COREY Weeki Wachee, Fla...
...firm, best known for its military-communications and reconnaissance systems, solidified its reputation in the 2001 war in Afghanistan, when its technology enabled commanders at a base in, say, Tampa, Fla., to see real-time images of Afghan battlefields. Contracts soon multiplied. "The U.S. has plenty of firepower," says Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds, a tech-focused mutual-fund group in Silicon Valley. "But Frank Lanza tells them where to point it." L-3's military customers also include Canada and other NATO countries...
...meanwhile, is at work on a new explosive-detection technology that some analysts believe could one day give L-3 a run for its money. "It's possible that new technology could render L-3's obsolete," says Christopher Tavares, an analyst for MetroTrading, a brokerage in Deerfield Beach, Fla. "To stay competitive, L-3 will have to continue to develop new product lines...
...York, N. Y.; Judge Learned Hand '93, New York, N. Y.; Arthur Lehman '94, New York, N. Y.; Dr. Barvey Cushing m '95, New Haven, Conn,; John W. Prenties '93, New York, N. Y.; Eliot Wadsworth '93, Boston, Mass,; Dwight F. Davis '00, St. Louis Mo., and Tallahane, Fla.; William R. Munro G '01, Pasadnes, Calif.; Samuel H. Wolcott '92, Boston, Mass.; Ogden L. Mills '95, New York, N. Y.; Eliot Root, Jr. 1 '06, New York, N. Y. ; Eliot C. Culler '09, Boston, Mass.; Joseph P. Kennedy '12, New York, N. Y.; Donald K. David '09, New York...