Word: midair
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GATOR BOMBS. A version of cluster bombs, they explode in midair, scattering small, hard-to-detect mines over a region as large as 90,000 sq. yds. Under normal conditions, a soldier might be able to sidestep these explosives, but in the heat of battle, there is a tendency to leap without looking. The gator bomb thus can create panic among the enemy...
...addition to these moves, Gates has kept other schools, including Stanford University and Princeton, hanging in midair while he mulled their offers before finally rejecting them...
...launched from fixed sites -- that is, silos -- were believed to have been taken out in the first attack. Within hours, American planes had destroyed six of the truck launchers, three with missiles inside. One other Scud missile had been launched earlier against Saudi Arabia, but was blown up in midair by a Patriot antimissile missile. That was another technological triumph, the first known time that an attack missile had been destroyed by a defensive missile in combat...
...psychological. From Saddam's point of view, it had to appear that the American deterrent went into effect as soon as the ^ first group of 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers and F-15 interceptors touched down in Saudi Arabia. To make the point, one F-15 squadron flew nonstop, with midair refueling, from its base in Virginia. From the moment the planes landed at Dhahran, the Iraqis were on warning that if they launched their tanks into Saudi Arabia, they would find themselves in a war with...
...intrusions for the increased assurance that no terrorist bomb is aboard their flight? They may have to, if the Bush Administration adopts the recommendations of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, which last week proposed some 60 strong steps for avoiding another tragedy like the midair destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. That disaster, said the commission's tough 182-page report, "may well have been preventable." The report blamed Pan Am's "seriously flawed" security system for loading an apparently unaccompanied suitcase containing a plastic explosive into the cargo hold...