"Decoys were made as utility pieces, designed to kill ducks, " says Stephen O'Brien Jr.
And finally, at the end of the sale, there are eight lots of waterfowl decoys.
In both contests decoys and stealing are critical, but patience is just as important.
"My days of driving down old dirt roads and scooping up decoys are long gone, " Figge laments.
When the missiles were fired, they hit the decoys and the B-1s went on to bomb their targets.
Duck decoys are among the very hottest collectibles, says Nancy Druckman, director of American Folk Art at Sotheby's.
You could fire off (unintelligible), you could have decoys or you could simply overwhelm the system by sheer numbers.
When they hooked up with CD-2, the decoys prevented the real LFA-3 from binding to and activating the T cells.
The decoys were never made to be exact replicas but to appear animate--that is, to look real from high above.
Biogen scientists crafted decoys by cloning and attaching the binding site of LFA-3 onto the Y-shaped tail of a harmless antibody.
But he played out his passion for hunting with his keen eye for buying decoys, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s.
For many years decoys weren't even considered art by serious American collectors.
Older, rare decoys by Henry Ruggles and Stephen Lane are nearly unobtainable.
Also within the next decade, one can expect that theater ballistic missiles will be capable of deploying decoys and maneuverable re-entry vehicles.
In another remarkable discovery, it has been shown that pseudogenes are capable of regulating tumor suppressors and oncogenes by acting as microRNA decoys.
But it is the inflatable lunch decoys campaign, which corresponds with a Buzz score rise of 7, which consumers have responded to the most.
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Still a bit tipsy on Jack Daniels, they decided to leave a few of their live duck decoys in the travertine marble fountain located in the lobby.
But for some, the idea of collecting decoys is quite foreign.
Craig Quigley, who denied charges that conditions for Friday's test were much too controlled and that the system is not capable of discerning real warheads from decoys.
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Never mind that the Kremlin's obsolescent radar is not designed for the kind of sophisticated discrimination of warheads from decoys inherent in the proposed, modern American system.
The Raytheon kill vehicle did successfully intercept a mock warhead last October, discriminating between decoys and the target and destroying the latter after briefly locking onto one of the former.
There would be dummy launches, fake warheads, decoys, everything you can imagine that would make it difficult if not impossible for any missile defense system to determine precisely what was happening.
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England require quick ball and then they need to use some moves, use runners and decoys and execute accurately, but they just don't seem to have the will to do it.
Wooden decoys--ducks, geese, shorebirds--were originally carved as hunting implements.
At present the K-MAX has no defensive systems, but Lockheed Martin says the helicopters could easily be fitted with armour, machine-gun pods or flares which could be fired as decoys to divert ground-launched missiles.
Japan is also working on a new rocket engine using composite materials from Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries and the first infrared seekers, made by Fujitsu, that can see in two colors to distinguish decoys from warheads.
Like that time in 1990 when Thomas K. Figge got wind of a dozen wooden duck decoys carved by master craftsman Bert Graves that were just sitting, unloved, on the mantel of a funeral home near Bloomington, Ill.
With the introduction of lighter and hardier plastics in the 1960s, old wooden decoys were retired: tossed in garages, left on the water or put up on mantels, mainly forgotten except by hunters who saw sentimental value in them.
Rigs of 6 to 100 ducks or geese were strung out early mornings on ponds and marshes as hunters hid behind blinds, hoping migrating flocks would see the decoys and come in for a landing or at least approach out of curiosity.
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