Word: foolproof
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...will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!” Camera pans to cheering, saluting fighter pilots—a foolproof formula for getting even my grandfather, who claims he would have killed himself if he knew the war would last so long, to feel patriotic goosebumps on his wrinkled arms...
...enter this country initially on legal visas, it seems unlikely that any self-respecting al-Qaeda operative will send a "just moved" postcard to the INS. Even some officials within the agency are tempering their hopes. "There's a way around any system," says one. "None of them is foolproof." --By Jodie Morse. With reporting by Elaine Shannon/Washington
...Napster entered the courtroom, things started slowing down there, too. Getting your hands on the latest MP3s got harder. The company instituted a loose filtering system which users managed to circumvent. Eventually Napster came up with something foolproof, and the fun was over...
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...great medical success stories of the late 20th century. Thanks to fertility drugs, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and a growing list of even more sophisticated techniques, tens of thousands of healthy babies are born each year that otherwise might never have been conceived. But the process is neither foolproof nor risk free. There are limits to what science can do for infertile couples, and the more doctors have to intervene with drugs, needles and surgery to get sperm to meet egg, the greater the chance that something will go wrong. Among the pitfalls...