Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most important attribute of the cruise missile which few consider may be its virtual invulnerability to Anti Ballistic Missiles (ABMs) and laser defense weapons. Because cruise missiles stay low and inside the atmosphere. ABMs are worthless, for they can only target ICBMs. Moreover, laser beams dissipate too easily while tracking cruise missiles inside the atmosphere...
...case of Afghanistan, right? America was on strong moral grounds there. It squandered it all for what? For a little pipsqueak of a country that was no more than a little tick in its side. It's like paying a massive moral price for a reward that is worthless. Purely from a pragmatic, realistic point of view-seeing the moral strength the United States has vis-a-vis its would enemy Russia-it can't get up in the U.N. anywhere and talk about Afghanistan or any other act of futurism by the Russians because they...
...needs. Oil remains Angola's most important resource, providing 82% of its foreign currency earnings of $1 billion. The drop in world demand, however, has shrunk production from 150,000 bbl. per day in 1980 to 115,000 bbl. last year. In these conditions, money has become virtually worthless, and an imaginative bartering system has replaced the official currency for many transactions...
There was a mad rush in Berlin when the Government announced the first issue of 142,000,000 rentenmarks, which is to replace the worthless paper mark. The press, indignant, demanded that the Government take steps to prevent another disturbance when the next issue is given...
...leave aside the fact that such an over flight would have no intelligence value unless it took place during the day (our infrared devices being next to worthless at altitudes of more than a few hundred feet--the KAL plane was, of course, at over 30,000 feet), and thus that the plane could not have been spying, for this is not the issue. Nor is the issue the true incompetence of Russia's air defenses which failed to tell the difference between an RC-135 (Boeing 707) spy plane and a 747 commercial jetliner, and which so botched...