Word: arsenal
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...made it through the door, his security men blocked anyone else from entering. Left outside among the disappointed autograph seekers were Russia's high-powered U.N. ambassador Sergey Lavrov and Putin's naval attach? - who happened to be carrying the briefcase containing the launch codes to Moscow's nuclear arsenal...
...breaks down. Then they'll find and fix the flaw and push the system again. That's kaizen. That's Tiger. It's also Tiger's buddy Michael Jordan, who worked as hard on defense as offense and in his later years added a deadly fallaway jumper to his arsenal. No matter how good they say you are, Michael tells Tiger, "always keep working on your game...
...finding predicts that U.S. deployment of even the limited missile defense system currently under consideration will provoke China into substantially increasing its own missile arsenal - the proposed system may be targeted at "rogue" states, but it could effectively neutralize China's small nuclear deterrent. And Chinese expansion would spark a regional domino effect, compelling India to counter Beijing's expanded capability by increasing its own, which would naturally force Pakistan to do the same and, if anything, increase the danger of "rogue" nuclear activity. Moreover, the spy agencies warn, without an as yet elusive agreement from Moscow, deployment...
...ironically once one of the movement's most hated adversaries (think of the Expedition), has made good on a pledge to examine better ways to fuel its cars and trucks, environmentalists may see a light at the end of the tunnel - as well as a new addition to their arsenal in the war against other, more stubborn carmakers. "Ford's decision shows that people who say you can't make cars cleaner and more fuel-efficient are wrong," the energy policy director of the Sierra Club told the New York Times...
...disease. Cells produce COX2 in response to injury, observes Mount Sinai molecular psychiatrist Giulio Pasinetti, who believes it may be COX2--and not beta amyloid--that induces the inflammatory response characteristic of the disease. Anti-inflammatories, in other words, could shortly emerge not only as components of the therapeutic arsenal but also as agents of prevention...