Word: interceptive
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...sillier, automatic practices are giving way to a standard of simple courtesy on the part of both men and women. Many women eliminate the problem by simply moving first, opening their own doors, striking their own matches, wrestling on their own coats before men have the chance to intercept them. The other day, a man held open a door for Betty Friedan and then apologized, saying, "I hope you don't mind." Said Friedan: "I love it. I would have held it open for you if I had gotten there first...
...supplied equipment, the anti-Soviet groups in the former Portuguese colony have so far managed to thwart Moscow's desire for a foothold on the southwest coast of Africa. Among other things, Soviet air and naval bases in Angola would give the Russians the capacity to intercept Western supertankers en route from the Persian Gulf to Europe...
...demonstrators, chanting "Munch, Munch, Eat the rich" and "Gerry you jerk Give us work," attempted to intercept the presidential motorcade on Storrow Drive, as it approached the science museum, but were blocked by a cordon of police several yards from the road...
...domestic telephone conversations, no doubt including those of Government, business and military leaders. Up to 70% of U.S. phone calls are carried by microwave, and the Soviets have set up parabolic receivers on their Molynia communications satellites in the skies over the U.S. and on the ground to intercept and record the microwave transmissions. All this should come as little sur prise, since the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have engaged in such mutual electronic spookery for years. The Russians have merely caught up with the American capability to pick out by computer, needle-in-a-haystack style, interesting conversations from...
Defense System. In 1968 the U.S. was building a widespread anti-missile defense system intended to intercept and destroy Soviet ICBMS before they struck American cities. A study of the guidance system and flight characteristics of the Soviet warhead would have enabled U.S. scientists to program more effectively the computers directing the U.S.'s targeting radar...