Word: weaponeering
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...rattled off so far this season, calling such a play foreseeable as recently as September would have been foolhardy at best. But as the season has progressed—and defensive coordinators have fixated on stopping the run—Dawson has quietly transformed himself from a one-dimensional weapon into a nuanced threat...
...love is a battlefield, as eighties rocker Pat Benetar once noted, the struggle has only become more and more tactical in recent years, leaving Lou a little lost in the shuffle. But this year, single men have one more weapon in their pick-up arsenal, and it requires almost no work on their part: the wing woman...
...wing woman, like the more conventional wing man, takes one for the team, putting in all the work to meet a woman, without reaping any of the benefits. Wing women are such a valuable weapon resource that Shane Forbes, a young New Yorker, has started wingwomen.com, a “ridiculously successful” service where a man can hire a smart, attractive woman to go out with and help introduce him to other women...
...Tehran, too, is divided. The flagging reform movement around President Mohammed Khatami, which seeks greater engagement with the West, has been largely eclipsed by more hard-line clerics emboldened by the presence of the "Great Satan" on Iran's doorstep. Rather than unambiguously pursue a nuclear weapon - a matter of ongoing debate among Iran's power centers, according to analysts - the Islamic Republic appears to have decided to put in place the maximum nuclear infrastructure permissible under the NPT, in order to facilitate rapid conversion to a bomb program should this option be chosen. But it's no simple split...
...Sanctions are also a limited response. If Iraq then actually manages to produce a nuclear weapon, as North Korea claims to have done, the sanctions regime becomes hard to sustain...