Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lawn, chief of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. The South Florida Task Force, launched by President Reagan in March 1982 and headed by Vice President Bush, has brought more personnel and high-tech gear to the task. AWACS-type aircraft and three tethered balloons --soon to be eight--provide radar to help authorities keep track of nearly every plane and ship that moves through the region...
What saves Anderson from Electronic Age pretentiousness is her cooly ambivalent humor. She's aware of the moral, political, and intellectual paradoxes of the "Big Science" that can provide all this amazing circuitry. She projects radar dishes, poses tough questions--"Should the unborn have civil rights?"--and takes a science lesson to absurd lengths by wondering what would happen if sperm were the size of sperm whales and decided to impregnate Japan...
Also sought is $3.1 billion for the eighth Trident missile-firing sub, $1.4 billion for the first production of a new generation of more powerful warheads for the Trident missiles, and a classified amount for the radar-evading "stealth" bomber...
Thousands of motorists in the cape area, listening to their radios, pulled off highways and faced the ocean. On Challenger's middeck, Onizuka, Jarvis and McAuliffe had nothing to do except wait. At dozens of points around the globe, radar tracking stations had now synchronized their antenna systems with the countdown sequence in Florida...
...Flat Pig, Missouri, insane asylum. Perhaps Santa lives in the North Pole, you say. Guess again. Military satellite photos of the icecap have shown no evidence of Santa's workshop anywhere above the 66th parallel. A brief glimmer of hope for believers occurred in 1958, when a NATO radar team on patrol spotted a large mansion and toy factory. However, experts soon discovered this "Christmas Kingdom" to be nothing more than an abandoned Soviet missile tracking station...