Word: interceptive
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...which scatter warheads toward several different targets after the rocket re-enters the atmosphere. The more deadly MARVs (for maneuvering reentry vehicles) have several separate nuclear payloads that can be maneuvered in different directions and at varying speeds as they plunge toward earth -making them even more difficult to intercept. The U.S. has already MIRVed a good number of its missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat of Soviet MIR vs now being deployed, the Pentagon has ordered major "rewiring" of both the pyramid-shaped nerve center of the Safeguard anti-missile system in North...
...passing game to the point where it is non-existent. The Terriers' defense was shoddy throughout the contest even with the return of Peter Brown, as the B.U. defensemen had difficulty getting the puck out of their zone, making many sloppy passes that Eagle forwards swooped in to intercept...
...Radcliffe cagers worked their press successfully from the beginning. They forced their opponents into making long, soft passes that Captain Jeannie Guyton could intercept, and for a while the Wheaton team failed to move the ball near its own basket...
...most important is the factor of the individual Harvard player himself. He is no longer the well-conditioned machine that only tried to get to position hoping to intercept a pass or crowd a situation. They are by now individual players who know exactly how they fit into the team--possessing skills promised at the beginning of the season by Ford...
European planemakers have stalled out while trying to intercept a larger share of the U.S.-dominated world market. The French sank $130 million into the Mercure mid-range commercial jet, sold only ten of them, and most likely will abandon the plane. A similar fate may well await the Concorde supersonic jetliner, on which much more British and French prestige is riding. Development costs have hit a frightening $2 billion, and the troubled plane's only solid customers so far are the state-owned airlines of the two countries financing...