They executed a preprogrammed response and began to drive all of the long control rods into the three reactors that were currently operating at the site.

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Developed by engineers at the Northrop Grumman Corporation, it has gone on test flights and may eventually be able to set off on a preprogrammed flight plan, identify enemy targets and fire weapons.

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Or that reference sites like Answers.com and Wikipedia, with thousands of preprogrammed responses, also draw a blank?

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The small black and orange box is preprogrammed with your phone numbers and dropped into a piece of checked luggage.

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Give a normal, casual greeting, or use one of the preprogrammed options that come with most accounts.

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Or they could be preprogrammed, with the instructions embedded in, say, a patient's wristwatch.

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