Word: high-tech
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Jalali said the threat of Saddam Hussein should have been evident to the world without high-tech surveillance. "It was in black and white in the annual reports of Amnesty International," he said...
...slabs, monuments to the bottom-line obsessions that created multipurpose stadiums equally antiseptic for baseball, football or rock concerts. In 1989 the Skydome in Toronto found a way to exaggerate this folly to Herculean proportions. Boasting a hotel overlooking center field, a Hard Rock Cafe and the aura of high-tech razzmatazz, the Skydome became a monument to itself, with baseball reduced to a minor sideline...
...Arab neighbors--with the exception of Egypt, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979--have been in declared states of war with Israel. Their goal is nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state. To this end, the Arab states have amassed huge arsenals of high-tech weapons. They boycott not only Israeli goods but the products of any company that does business with Israel...
...killing Hellfire missile? So, too, are the U.S. military services, the Bush Administration, the Congress -- and a host of defense contractors eager to turn the war-born popularity of their fearsome weapons into a new splurge of arms spending and big profits. Such is the congressional passion for these high-tech marvels that a new "war dividend" of great value to many people -- but decidedly not to the beleaguered American taxpayer -- is being doled out on Capitol Hill...
China is even further behind in the high-tech stakes. A commentator in the . military's Liberation Army Daily wrote of the gulf conflict, "We are seeing the warfare of the 21st century fought on the battlefield of today." The gulf battles were the antithesis of Mao Zedong's theories, which insisted that a "people's war" of massed armies would defeat any aggressor. Beijing began thinking about modernization recently, but with a defense budget of only $6.16 billion last year, it is hard pressed to deliver much more than basic equipment to its army of 3 million...