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...French-built Super-Etendard Argentine fighter-bombers probably approached the British fleet flying at around 575 m.p.h. H.M.S. Sheffield 's radar would in all likelihood have picked them up only as they climbed to identify their target and launch their Exocet air-to-sea missiles. From that moment, the attack that crippled the British destroyer some four minutes later was no longer a matter of daring and courage. It had become a 20th century battle of microchips and computers, of decisions and reactions far too fast for the human brain to make. Says a weapons expert for Jane...
...closer to realizing the hopes any fair society has for its misguided youths. It would give disruptive and troubled (but not actually dangerous) young people a chance to sort out their problems in cooperation with a competent government agency; and the transfer of actual criminal jurisdiction would lower the likelihood that threats to society, whatever their age, would remain free...
...firm proposals to change certain policies in that form Such resolutions can range from a request that a company disclose its political contributors to a request to stop operating in a particular country Rarely, however, do such resolutions receive more than a few percent of shareholders proxy votes. The likelihood on changing any policy through shareholder resolutions is also reduced by the convention that any non returned ballot be counted as a vote for management. Harvard's influence is also limited because the University does not own more than a small part of any company...
...Rosen added that he questions Bok's proposal of relying on high school grades and SAT scores to determine this likelihood...
David M. Rosen, director of governmental public relations, said he agrees with "the basic thrust" of Bok's suggestion of relating eligibility for grants to one's likelihood of graduating from college...