Word: lemons
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...Army's Sergeant York antiaircraft weapon, made to shoot down enemy helicopters, has proved a lemon. Known also as DIVAD (Division Air Defense), the system has two radar-guided guns attached to an M48A5 tank chassis. DIVAD has had trouble detecting decoys and hitting helicopters that do not have radar reflectors attached. Nonetheless, the Pentagon has invested $1.5 billion in 276 DlVADs, and last week Richard DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, was preparing a report for Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on whether to buy 117 more. While DeLauer was at work, a study...
...manufacturer of a weapon that became famous for its successful use against Britain during the 1982 Falklands war took out an advertisement in a British magazine last week-not to apologize but to defend the weapon against charges that it is a lemon. The sponsor of that milestone in marketing history is Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale, the French firm whose Exocet air-to-surface missile was responsible for one of the biggest British setbacks of the ten-week war. Argentina used the weapon to sink the destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield, which went down in the South...
...East is the Middle East, where Lieut. Eddie Murphy is demonstrating a dubiously designed tank to dubiously inclined Arab buyers. The West is California, two years earlier, where Dudley Moore plays an engineer who gets into trouble by failing to give his undivided attention to making Eddie's lemon grow. And, yes, never the twain shall meet. But the poet's point is a poor comic premise. Though Best Defense provides both stars a few funny moments and offers some promising satirical ideas, its binary construction imposes a fatal jumpiness on it. Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck...
...wondering what life would have been like if I had known all of this four years ago--that you don't really have to dial five-five-thousand, just zero, that you get cancer if you put lemon in your tea in a Styrofoam cup, that people are still looking at your freshman facebook picture when you are a senior...
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