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...chart cluster bombs. According to Goose, the multiple launch rocket systems that were present in Iraq can fire 12 rockets at a clip, each of which has 644 submunitions. Assuming the Pentagon's failure-rate estimate of 16%, that would yield some 1,200 duds in a full volley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bombs That Keep On Killing | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...Barrios’s legislation will only become effective with approval from Governor Romney, who has backed the MBTA’s latest volley against the Turnpike, alongside his Transportation Secretary, Daniel Grabauskas...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: MBTA To Block Allston Purchase | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

Though he employs the serve-and-volley strategy quite consistently, he hadn’t been able to hit any volleys until the day before his match. However, Riddell is a team player and would not let the Crimson down in its biggest match of the year...

Author: By Ashwin M. Krishnan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Harvard Rides Riddell | 4/29/2003 | See Source »

...captain Oliver Choo and junior Cliff Nguyen won 8-3 at No. 3. The Harvard pair quickly noticed that opponent Aravinda Neuman’s volley was weak, so they consistently ripped service returns past him while he was at the net and used a variety of shots to force Neuman to attempt volleys...

Author: By Ashwin M. Krishnan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Sails By Cornell, Columbia to Stay Undefeated in Ivy | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

...planners are trying to make that transition easier. They are betting that a ferocious opening volley--what they call a shock-and-awe campaign--would destroy Iraq's will to resist and quickly end Saddam's rule with little destruction to the country's infrastructure. Some officers have even grumbled that the war plan places too many transportation and power grids off limits as a sop to postwar needs. But if hostilities drag on, rebuilding Iraq could prove as costly and complicated as the four-year reconstruction of Hitler's Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Beyond Saddam | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

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