Nelson said the range was clear when the Navy planes dropped their loads.

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The implications for the U.S. Navy are clear.

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Because there is no clear definition of harassment, the Navy's efforts to deploy an up-to-date sonar system have been delayed for more than six years.

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Furthermore, he added, should the marines be properly apprehensive about underwater obstacles, these would be effectively eliminated well before D Day by teams of Navy frogmen who would clear the beaches.

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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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His beginnings were clear enough: born in Cork, brought up in Soho, undistinguished schooldays, a wartime in the navy.

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Warner, a Virginia Republican who was a former Navy secretary, suggested pulling 5, 000 troops off the battlefield would send "a very clear signal" without endangering the missions being carried out by the rest.

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