Word: teste
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...begun the previous July, the town had no military importance. Its bombing was an exercise in terror. Nazi Germany's gift to Nationalist leader General Franco was also, as Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering told the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, "an opportunity to put my young air force to the test...
North Korea reportedly test-launched at least three missiles early Wednesday, including one of its long-range Taepodong-2 missiles. And though indications were the test failed in midair, the news - combined with more saber-rattling earlier this week from Pyongyang, which warned it would respond with an "annihilating strike and a nuclear war" to any U.S. preemptive attack - won't do much to calm Washington's concern over North Korea's steady march to strategic nuclear capability. The Taepodong-2 is believed by U.S. intelligence to have three stages, which would could allow its payload to reach anywhere...
...supporters. Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's chief weapons tester for six years until 2001, says the shield is "a scarecrow defense" of unproven value. Baker Spring of the Heritage Foundation, a long-time backer, bemoans what he sees as Administration foot-dragging. "They are so scared of test failures," he says, "they're not moving forward as fast as they...
...competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check. So listen carefully because, after all, you are the judge. It is the people themselves who are the makers of their own government. "The best test of truth," as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote, "is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market...
Conger devised a study to test how widespread favoritism is. She assembled a group of 384 adolescent sibling pairs and their parents, visiting them three times over three years and questioning them all about their relationships, their sense of well-being and more. To see how they interacted as a group, she videotaped them as they worked through sample conflicts. Overall, she concluded that 65% of mothers and 70% of fathers exhibited a preference for one child--in most cases, the older one. What's more, the kids know what's going on. "They all say, 'Well, it makes sense...