The main reason it was able to counter the unexpected threat of improvised explosive devices in Iraq was that the Pentagon launched a crash program to build thousands of heavily-protected trucks.

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As the world slid into the war, scientists in the United States, including many refugees from Europe, convinced the government to create a crash program to build the first of these weapons.

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In 1995, as a result of another defector, we find out that, after his invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein had initiated a crash program to build a crude nuclear weapon in violation of Iraq's U.N. obligations.

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The Navy's choice is clear: develop and acquire N-UCAS now, in a low risk, cost-effective manner, or make the false economy of cutting funding now and then developing N-UCAS as a high risk, crash program later.

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Miss one and a program could crash.

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That said, this is not a charity or a non-profit, rather an educational program within a specific niche, giving a crash course to talented personnel who, in many cases, already possess the basic skills to break into the tech sphere.

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While PCs have traditionally been the computer of choice in a majority of business environments, Macs and iOS devices are starting to crash Microsoft's party -- and a program like Parallels (and Parallels Mobile) makes it much easier to accomplish everything on one computer.

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Yet the chief reason they campaign for a measured U.S. buck-weakening program is to "correct" our growing external deficit and avoid a dollar crash and financial market chaos.

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The 1987 crash, when the Dow lost 20% in a matter of hours, was blamed squarely on program trading, in which computers are set to sell (or buy) when stocks hit a certain threshold.

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