However, because some character classes or skill sets can easily defeat characters of other classes or skills in many MMORPGs, developers should consider a skill-point character development system over a class-based system to balance play and to provide an opportunity for any character class engaged in combat to win.

FORBES: Studying Player Commitment To MMORPGs

The Navy built two classes of warships around the Aegis combat system, beginning with the Ticonderoga class of cruisers in the 1980s and then the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers in the 1990s.

FORBES: Missile Defense Becomes A Navy Mission

Thus, delaying carrier construction would allow some near-term cost avoidance, but over the longer term the service would end up paying more for each carrier and other combat systems such as the Virginia-class attack submarine.

FORBES: Despite Budget Woes, The Navy Is Unlikely To Cut Carriers

Sgt. 1st Class Stephanie Cazares with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, at Fort Bliss, Texas, said it was impossible to know what, if any, changes it would mean for women in the military.

CNN: Former troops say time has come for women in combat units

To combat the (presumed) flight of its middle-class population, Baltimore created the More in the Middle program in 2008, dedicated to convincing middle-class black families to remain in the city by helping them form financial ties in the area, such as facilitating home ownership, business ownership and higher education.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Shortly before Christmas, Congress approved a plan to buy 20 Littoral Combat Ships between 2010 and 2015 at prices far below what any other class of warship currently costs.

FORBES: Low-Cost Warship Rescues Navy From Shrinking Fleet

Authorities began using "bait cars" about six years ago in the Bronx to combat a chronic problem with car thefts and break-ins in working-class neighborhoods.

WSJ: Take the bait? NYPD anti-theft tactics criticized

So he curbed or cancelled more than 30 weapons systems including the army's Future Combat System, the F-22 Stealth fighter, two missile defence systems and the Zumwalt-class destroyer.

ECONOMIST: American military spending