Word: productiveness
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...hard fact about the Air Force's choice is that it represents the downside of globalization. As economies of scale whittle away at the number of companies building a given product, inevitably a crafty customer is going to have to look worldwide for the best buy. It wasn't so long ago that Boeing could count on the McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Co. to keep it honest in dealings with the Pentagon. After all, that esteemed company built the KC-10 tanker for the Pentagon a generation ago, after beating out Boeing for that contract...
...Dictatorships need isolation if they hope to resist freedom's onslaught. Fidel Castro's five decades in power were less the product of brilliance and charisma than of U.S.-enforced isolation. Uncle Sam's embargo provided Castro with the shield he needed to survive the demise of the communist bloc. The embargo denied Castro nothing he couldn't buy elsewhere, while his totalitarian communist system has destroyed entrepreneurial initiative, squandered wealth on weapons and brought abject poverty to the Cuban populace. Tony Gonzalez, Weeki Wachee, Florida...
Bout was both a product of the post-Cold War era and a master of its chaos. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the industrious 25-year-old saw an opportunity to turn dozens of military cargo planes that were sitting unused on military runways into a multimillion-dollar transport business...
...most abundant forms of unused energy in the environment is the vibrations that are a by-product of motion. Think of the rumblings of a bridge in heavy traffic or even the pulse of a dance floor. That's essentially free movement, and scientists can transform that micromotion into electricity in a number of ways. One should be familiar from high school physics class. A magnet hooked up to be sensitive to vibrations wobbles inside a copper coil, generating a current through electromagnetism. Steve Beeby, an engineer at the University of Southampton in Britain, created a vibration harvester that works...
...unless she resorts to tactics that will make her candidacy seem sleazy and conniving, a course of action that will surely be self-defeating in the end. One would hope that her saying Obama is not a Muslim "as far as I know" on 60 Minutes was more the product of exhaustion than intent, but she could continue on the slimy path of innuendo, raising questions about Obama's patriotism and provenance. More likely, she could choose to play technical games: attempting to seat the disputed Michigan and Florida delegations even though she agreed that they should not be seated...