Word: foolproofing
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...exclusive long-term deals. These favored producers not only are virtually assured of getting their shows on the air; they seem to have a lock on the best time periods as well. Diane English's new CBS comedy Love and War, for example, will have the all-but-foolproof spot following English's current hit, Murphy Brown. Hearts Afire, the new series from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, will also get an enviable time period: after Bloodworth-Thomason's Evening Shade. Over at ABC, Tom Arnold's new sitcom The Jackie Thomas Show was surprisingly left off the fall schedule...
...method is by no means foolproof. Catalona stresses that 21% of the men in his study with prostate cancer actually had "normal" PSA levels. Thus the test should be used only in combination with a rectal exam, he said, and even then some cancers will be missed...
These direct attacks on Iraqi forces have already destroyed as much as a third of their armor and artillery. Warfare will never be foolproof, and air power alone has yet to win a war. But once the ground attack begins, allied pilots will learn soon enough whether their efforts have greatly improved the chances for a swift breakthrough...
...electronic ID systems, like the IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) radio transponders that are standard equipment on military and civilian aircraft. A missile battery equipped with IFF can "interrogate" an aircraft by beaming a radio signal at it and listening to the answering squawk. But the system is not foolproof. In the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Arab batteries fired 2,100 antiaircraft missiles and destroyed 85 aircraft -- 45 of them Arab, 40 Israeli...
This would, of course, be tremendously expensive, what with the cash we'd have to pay some fool to place small magnetic strips on ten million books. But the benefits would likely be worth it. The system is virtually foolproof. No more books would be stolen...