Word: weaponeering
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...maintained its rebel streak even as its grown to rival its competitors in size, has filed a lawsuit "to protect itself and its customers from potential harm." From whence the threat? A new travel website, called Orbitz, which is to Southwest the airline industry version of a nuclear weapon...
...costumes suit their imaginings. Sometimes her skirts are hot and short, sometimes they're demure and innocent. It's the same way with attitudes. Sometimes she's clipped and bossy. Sometimes she's innocent and virginal. Sometimes she's a kitten with a whip. Sex is a weapon for her; weapons are weapons for her. She'll screw you or kill you, depending on what seems to offer her the shortest route to the DVD player of her dreams...
...with care packages and food-for-shelter deals, and just let nature take its course. The downside is that the group tends to bond and put backstabbing aside when real adversity hits - the upside is that this is supposedly a survivor show, and that bonding can be a dramatic weapon. The way the remaining group fixed bitterly on Colby when the rain washed away their camp while he was off eating stew and sipping crisp, refreshing, won't-fill-you-up-never-lets-you-down Bud Light - that's what this season has been all about, and when...
...ICBMs are essentially a weapon of the Cold War, developed in the knowledge that nuclear devices carried by bomber planes were vulnerable to being shot down. Nuclear tipped rockets fired into space, whose warheads could be more-or-less accurately targeted upon reentry gave both Washington and Moscow the means to deliver an almost instantaneous retaliation for a nuclear strike by an enemy on a different continent. Their development and maintenance cost billions of dollars and they carried a return address, but that didn?t matter in the Cold War calculation - ICBM?s were there to maintain a balance...
...Well even if we don't build it, they?re more likely to put a weapon of mass destruction in a Cessna or on a fishing boat or in a Ryder truck. The Pentagon knows that, but this has ceased to be a debate on the merits of devoting so much of our resources to a missile threat - it has become an article of faith. America has always been undefended against all sorts of threats. We determine our spending based on how imminent or plausible those threats are. We've always accepted some degree of risk because we?ve devoted...