Word: prowesses
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Coach Keefe may be understating his own team's prowess, though, as the Bulldogs have dominated everyone on their schedule this year outside of Brown and Princeton...
...thought of disbanding the Thunderbirds, despite the risks and deaths. Seventeen pilots have been killed in accidents since the Thunderbirds began flying in May 1953, two last year. But the Thunderbirds have enthralled 154 million spectators in all 50 states and 45 foreign countries. Overseas, they demonstrate U.S. aerial prowess; at home, they serve as a flying recruiting poster. Says Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr: "There will be criticism, that's inevitable. But it won't lead to abandonment of the Thunderbirds...
What angers U.S. and European officials is not the marketing prowess of Japanese exporters, but the complex regulations that hamper foreign businessmen in Japan. Examples abound. An American maker of aluminum baseball bats was developing a good market for his product until the Japanese softball association ruled that his bats could not be used in tournament play. Reason: the label stamped on them supposedly made them defective. Companies selling products in aerosol spray cans complain that their cans must be 25% thicker in Japan than anywhere else in the world. Moreover, the outfit that inspects the incoming aerosol products...
Even when Soviet force is not on the move, the existence of so gargantuan a military machine threatens other states. It emboldens zealots within the Politburo who might be tempted to use this prowess, as well as pro-Soviet forces abroad who might hope that Moscow's leaders will aid or rescue their own bids for power...
...brief sitting. Alarmingly, it tends to dawdle before administering the coup de grâce. Behavioralists believe this happens because cats are programmed by a primitive, vestigial stalking mechanism. Cats toy with their prey because they may be teaching kittens to hunt or may be exhibiting their prowess; instinctively cats do not always relate killing with the need to eat. When they finally do away with a mouse, it is with Darwinian perfection. The cat's teeth are so arranged as to sever a rodent's spine with surgical precision...