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...deliver a bomb--from offshore submarines or cruise missiles, for example, neither of which could be intercepted by proposed SDI technology. SDI planners see their defense as a multilayered ''architecture'' that could blunt a Soviet attack during the three distinct stages of delivery: the missile's boost, or launch, phase; midcourse, essentially the intercontinental space flight after the nuclear warheads and decoys have been released; and terminal, or re-entry, when the deadly warheads drop back into earth's atmosphere heading toward their targets. The most important of these is the boost phase, during which an ICBM's multiple warheads...
...even dare a brief fling with Joe Louis. But until she was 19, Lena had never had a boyfriend. Rather disastrously, she married one of the first men she dated: Louis Jones, a minister's son. Led by her mother, little Gail became part of a new and vibrant phase of black bourgeois life, in which respectability became the dancing partner of chic. As Lena moved up in the world, displaying her flawless cheekbones and elegant diction at bistros from New York's Cafe Society to Hollywood's Little Troc, she and her daughter crossed most of the boundaries...
Globalization was just phase 1. Get ready for a new wave of challengers, "bursting their way onto the big stage." So say the three authors of this smart analysis about the latest developments in global competition: "One day, it may be your company that Tata Group wants to acquire, your child calling home from Shanghai, your job moving to Mexico City and your brand-new Changfeng gleaming in the driveway." The trio urges U.S. companies to fight back by creating low-cost, high-quality and ingenious products and by reaching deep into big markets. And to "adapt, adopt and synthesize...
...kind of deal with a group that sees every negotiation as a step on the road to "liberating" Jerusalem. In that light, the prisoner exchange on July 16 isn't a promising first step toward ending hostilities between Israel and Lebanon, but instead the opening of an unstable new phase in the Arab-Israeli conflict, in which there is no system in place to prevent small outbursts from turning into big wars...
...positive reception from Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier suggests that the proposals will likely receive crucial backing from top administrators. Flier announced that the release of the white papers concludes the first phase of his strategic planning process launched last October, as the reports lay the groundwork for “prioritization and detailed planning” in the fall...