• This gentle way of handling the enemy stopping his speedboats, stalling his tanks has surprising advantages.

    ECONOMIST: Electromagnetic weapons

  • Think-tanks' flimsier finances make them easy prey too and they are more immediately influential than universities.

    ECONOMIST: Reputation management

  • That means no pumps, and allows light, composite materials to be used for its tanks a considerable saving in weight.

    ECONOMIST: On a rotor-blade and a prayer | The

  • "The guys who buy tanks don't worry about losing their jobs or making their house payments they don't have either, " says Mr. Uhrig.

    WSJ: These Vehicles Are Tons of Fun, and Good for Thwarting Road Rage

  • Born in Prague in 1947, he moved to Italy where his uncle, Cestmir Vycpalek, was a soccer coach shortly after Russian tanks rolled in back in 1968.

    WSJ: Zdenek Zeman: The Return of Soccer's Jedi

  • The view is dreary scrubland and rusting tanks but the prospects are tantalising.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq's southern oil hub

  • From a strictly military perspective, "cyberwar" with a small "c" may very well exist, playing second fiddle to ongoing military conflict, the one with tanks, shellfire and all.

    WSJ: Battling the Cyber Warmongers

  • NATO's European land forces might just as well be deployed in Bosnia building bridges literally and metaphorically as hanging around the German plains, waiting for non-existent Soviet tanks.

    ECONOMIST: But the healing has barely begun

  • Over the past 50 years conservatives have created a network of institutions from think-tanks to local pressure groups that have succeeded in pushing the Republican Party to the right.

    ECONOMIST: George Bush

  • Oil markets will not escape this cycle, Miss Schels believes, until more refineries and storage tanks are built, and more fields developed a process that can take years.

    ECONOMIST: Falling oil prices cheer central bankers

  • "You see, we're fighting a war a horrible war against an enemy that has no divisions, has no tanks, has no war plans, " he says.

    NPR: General: Israel Must Defend Itself

  • Agency scientists found that in just a few hours some subjects suspended in water tanks or confined in isolated rooms wearing blacked-out goggles and earmuffs regressed to semi-psychotic states.

    NEWYORKER: The Black Sites

  • Ultimately, it all comes down to political will in Western Europe and the longer Russian tanks remain in Georgia, the clearer it becomes that such will is lacking.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A Bear energy market

  • Comprehensive and detailed plans, likely to produce the needed changes, have been coming out of academia, industry and financial think tanks, and less often special government commissions and the bureaucracy, for years.

    FORBES: Takenaka Heizo's Reform Plan

  • Two decades after the Kremlin started beating the retreat from the Soviet empire, a new hegemony, based on pipelines rather than tanks, is advancing and shows every sign of proving durable.

    ECONOMIST: An assertive Russia will flex its energy muscles

  • His stated intention to remove 500, 000 men and 10, 000 tanks from Eastern Europe is frequently treated as an accomplished fact one which has already reduced the threat to the West.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: US-Soviet Relations

  • Providing funding to universities and think tanks great.

    FORBES: There He Goes Again: Romney's Tesla Gaffe

  • At al-Hisha and other bases near Beida, youths captured tanks and anti-aircraft guns and turned them on the few bases manned by katibas literally brigades, but more closely resembling militias flown in from Tripoli.

    ECONOMIST: The liberated east

  • The House also voted 283-128 to bar public spending on special blender pumps and tanks necessary for higher ethanol concentrations support the ethanol lobby has been seeking to replace tax credits and tariffs.

    FORBES: Biofuels: Fields Of Pipedreams

  • But the two think tanks at issue have a long trail one that has tried to discredit green energy sources so that the fossil fuels can maintain their substantive lead supplying electric generators.

    FORBES: Lobbyists Try to Halt State Green Energy Standards

  • In 1940, the French army disposed of 530 artillery pieces, 830 antitank guns, and 235 (almost half) of its best tanks, because in 1940 the French did not think much of the Wehrmacht until May.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Memo to the President: Your Legacy Must Be to Restore America��s Military

  • That contaminated water along with groundwater that flows into the reactor buildings either has to be recycled or put in storage, leading to the creation of the seven underground pools as well as hundreds of tanks above ground.

    WSJ: Leaks Rouse Fears at Japanese Nuclear Plant

  • Even as Soviet tanks were rumbling through the streets of Vilnius last week and the Bush Administration was softly urging restraint on Moscow the United States was offering an important trade concession to the Kremlin.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | The Bush Administration��s Response To Repression: US Concessions On Gatt Membership

  • With Slavic hardliners urging Mr Trajkovski to let his army hit back harder, and as Albanian politicians increased their demands, the Macedonian army had suddenly breached a truce by assaulting Aracinovo with tanks, artillery and helicopter-gunships to absolutely no effect.

    ECONOMIST: The Balkans

  • On Thursday May 15th the day on which Palestinians commemorate their flight from Israel during the war over its creation in 1948 Israeli tanks and helicopters raided the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, killing five Palestinians, reportedly including a 12-year-old boy.

    ECONOMIST: Peace and broken promises

  • Eventually, Rizzo believes the therapy will include other stimuli, such as vibrations to simulate the impact of bombs or rumbling of tanks, and even the smells of war the body odor, garbage and spices of urban combat, for example.

    NPR: Virtual Reality Therapy for Combat Stress

  • But the main European powers could demonstrate their determination to do better by co-ordinating with a view to military excellence rather than industrial protectionism the purchase of tanks, artillery and helicopters, as well as the ships and aircraft needed to bring them to battle.

    ECONOMIST: Defending the Union

  • The biggest losers will be inefficient local producers, such as one in Samara, in southern Russia, where the decrepit town brewery, featuring fermentation tanks with flaking linings, nasty smells and beer brewed to purists' horror from sugar and rice, has fought off all outside interest.

    ECONOMIST: Russian beer

  • Indeed, the article the firm published was not intended to give the subject matter the same authoritative treatment as more thorough studies on the same topic particularly those conducted by numerous think tanks, and the Congressional Budget Office, which came to the opposite conclusion.

    FORBES: McKinsey's Anti-Obamacare Study May Be A Lie - But It's A Lie Worth Big Bucks To McKinsey

  • With China so engaged in the global economy, there is a never-ending stream of data, often unreliable, to feed the appetites of economic-research firms, investment banks, hedge funds, short-sellers, political-risk advisers, think-tanks, consultancies and financial and military newsletters not to mention legions of academics, journalists, diplomats and spies.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

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