Word: precisionism
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And if Reagan decides to proceed with the Star Wars system, he just might be doing us all a favor should one day Russia and the United States find themselves deep in crisis. It's not pleasant to think that force stand on a hair-trigger, but in an age...
Nonetheless, the U.S.S.R. is not exactly a backwater when it comes to computers. Its scientists, many of whom are top notch by international standards, have built large machines that are powerful and accurate enough to guide cosmonauts into orbit. The military has many weapons that incorporate advanced computer technology, some...
In most details, the Chernenko funeral differed little from the final rites for Brezhnev and Andropov. The crack gray-uniformed honor guards, goose- stepping beside the red and black-bedecked gun carriage, each balancing his rifle on one hand, seemed as coldly perfect as a precision gear wheel put through...
This much is known: a part of the enormous energy released by a nuclear explosion can be converted to powerful X rays by rods projecting from an atomic device in the microsecond or so before the rods themselves are vaporized. The beams are so powerful that they need no "dwell...
The Tigers, who led until just five minutes remained, stifled a gallant Quaker comeback with precision free throws in the final minutes.