Never mind that the U.S. defense industrial base is a fraction of what it was in Eisenhower's day n terms of the number of domestic suppliers involved, the size of the associated workforce and output of materiel.

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That's still only a fraction of a potential global client base of as many as 3 billion people.

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When you make a wireless connection, the signals between you and the base station scatter off in multiple directions, but only a fraction of the signal actually hits its intended target.

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