Argentina is perched at that critical juncture between survivable crisis, and certain, inexorable misery.
"We have changed accidents to be much more survivable, " a senior FAA official said.
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"I can convert a 100% lethal injury into a 100% survivable one, " he says.
If the car had not been approaching the crash would have been survivable, the coroner said.
That leaves submarines carrying ballistic missiles as the most survivable and reliable component of the deterrent force.
Some crashes are survivable, he notes, but lap babies face more daunting odds than their strapped-in parents.
The plane "appears to have made a direct impact that was not survivable, " Maritime New Zealand said Saturday.
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The end of the flight might have been "far more survivable for all on board", added the AAIB.
Fourth, there is little likelihood that emerging technologies will enable unmanned aircraft to become autonomously capable and survivable in the near future.
They are designed to be livable, survivable and tractable in everyday driving.
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Additionally, she was nominated for a regional Emmy for her report on how to decrease chances of injury in survivable plane crashes.
He was laid off from his 17-year job and, with unemployment hardly a survivable wage, took the first job that came his way.
But crashes have become more survivable, thanks largely to tougher safety standards that require seats capable of surviving major impact and slower-burning cabin materials.
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On those occasions, the Gates plan would have Marines moving ashore in vehicles much less survivable than the system the defense secretary wants to cancel.
The proposed solution was the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, a more survivable light truck that could serve the needs of soldiers, marines and special-operations forces battling elusive adversaries.
The US Navy regards the Arleigh-Burke destroyers as the most "survivable" warships in the world because they are designed to withstand all manner of attacks and then escape.
The stealthy B-2 looks highly survivable for many years to come, but there are only 20 in the fleet and major air campaigns typically require a hundred bombers.
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But the buoyant new truth is that scientists and medical companies are closer than ever before to taming this threat, reducing prostate cancer to a chronic, manageable--and utterly survivable--disease.
In 2000, former Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki first proposed the FCS project in an attempt to make the Army more deployable, networked, jointly synchronized and survivable.
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While the Chinese plane is distinctly different from the American fighter, it clearly seeks to exploit the same stealth technology in its forward aspect that makes the F-22 so survivable.
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Jobs has suffered from a rare survivable form of pancreatic cancer, and he has looked thin and wan since a liver transplant in 2009, even as his company has flourished.
With manned aircraft, carriers cannot counter cruise and ballistic missile threats from a survivable distance, and will face budget cuts on grounds of vulnerability, just as the new class of destroyers did last month.
The B-2 typically is the first bomber used in every air campaign because it is so survivable, and with recent modifications it will soon be able to precisely hit 200 targets in a single flight.
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The basic idea behind the Littoral Combat Ship is to build a fast and survivable warship that can operate at much lower costs in the shallow-water areas near enemy coastlines where frigates traditionally have been used.
U.S. military planners spent the next 50 years revising and refining the requirements of deterrence, spelling out in great detail the performance characteristics required of U.S. nuclear forces to assure they were both survivable and credible.
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When comparisons are adjusted to remove this disparity, the cost per flight hour of the F-35 is only about ten percent higher than that of legacy planes for a fighter that is far more survivable and effective.
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An unmanned aircraft like N-UCAS solves both these problems at once, providing a cost-effective capability that allows the carriers to find and attack terrorists and insurgents, and also to counter cruise and ballistic missile threats from a survivable distance.
No candidate wants to publicly contemplate losing before the votes are counted, still strategists both in New Hampshire and in Texas believe with organizations in 50 states, a Bush loss in New Hampshire, while not desirable, would be quite survivable.
The mission -- called MAST (for Multi-Application Survivable Tether) -- is scheduled to begin April 17th with a payload launch on a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, after which the Washington state-based Tethers Unlimited's two anchor sats (less-cleverly dubbed Ted and Ralph -- um, hello, Penny and Brain...) will gradually separate until they've pulled the kilometer-long line taut.
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