Word: reacts
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Developing such omnivision is the job of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), headquartered in the shadow of Pike's Peak at Colorado Springs. NORAD also must react defensively to what it sees, and give warning to U.S. and Canadian citizens to head for their shelters-if they have any. Established four years ago, NORAD has recently acquired new techniques to meet the growing threats. It can now detect almost anything bigger than a bird in the air over some 15 million sq. mi. from Iceland to Midway...
...same field at different campuses. The nuances are endless. When a dean in sunny Texas asks on the phone, "Is it still sleeting in Chicago?", he may be implying a full-scale job offer. Or he may not; a major gaucherie, of course, is for a professor to react to a feeler that wasn't there...
Plenty of Warning. Northrop scientists began working on VIPS when they discovered that pilots react quickest to spoken commands; even when a pilot is beginning to black out from G forces and can no longer see warning lights, he hears and understands a distinctive voice. A feminine voice was chosen for VIPS to avoid confusion with the voices of other crewmen. The whole system weighs only 8 Ibs., but its quick-acting brain can even assign priorities when several warnings are called for at once. If engine oil is low, Gina's voice reports the problem, but in case...
...Rogers also of the Air University, concluded the program in discussing the psychological problems of any future space voyager. The Air Force, he said, was making great progress in discovering how man would react to long periods of isolation...
...really unnecessary. Even under the terms of the relevant statutes, Henry Miller's book is not obscene. A mind incapable of understanding the book, a mind that thinks of legs as "limbs" and bulls as "he-cows" might come to such an odd conclusion. Such a mind would simply react with shock or disgust to the vigorous language of the book...