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...successful because he defines the issues, he picks the terrain and never yields the initiative...
...CRUISE MISSILE: A jet-powered drone that flies, or "cruises," through the atmosphere, rather than arcing into space on a ballistic trajectory, like a rocket. The cruise missile finds its way to a target by matching the terrain over which it flies against a map stored in its computerized brain. Because it is small (about 18 ft. long) and flies very low, it is difficult for the Air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) on test flight enemy to track and intercept. There are three varieties: the air-launched cruise missile, ALCM (pronounced al-kum), which is fired from a bomber...
...Vile Bodies, or dipped into Zuleika Dobson, it was a true sign of sophistication. French literature was pretty much uncharted territory, except in my case, for I received a copy of Les Fleurs du Mal with a "sensitive" inscription on the flyleaf from some moony boyfriend. The unexplored terrain of a the Russian novel was as immense as the steppes themselves...
They are situated above grocery stores, in prefab buildings, near noisy bars and open sewers and on the grounds of abandoned convents. Goats and chickens come with the terrain, as do water shortages, blackouts and the occasional political coup. Many lack facilities normally considered standard: research libraries, X-ray machines, fresh cadavers. But for about 15,000 U.S. students desperate to become doctors, the makeshift medical schools that dot the Caribbean represent a last chance. Failure to get into graduate schools in the U.S. once meant flying off to universities in Mexico, Italy or the Philippines. Lately, students have been...
...Clearly there are too many magazines," says David Bunnell, publisher of PC World and Mac World, magazines specializing in the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh computers. "I expect 50 more to fold before the year is over." Bunnell is a veteran of this treacherous terrain. One morning in 1982 he walked into his San Francisco offices only to discover that his company had been bought out over the weekend by publishing giant Ziff-Davis...