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For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;
The use of the term " battle " in military history has led to its misuse when referring to almost any scale of combat, notably by strategic forces involving hundreds of thousands of troops that may be engaged in either a single battle at one time ( Battle of Leipzig ) or multiple operations ( Battle of Kursk ).
Those who made the Third Reich ’ s military plans and organized its war economy appear rarely, if ever, to have employed the term blitzkrieg in official documents.
The Roy Harper song " All Ireland " from the album Lifemask, written in the days following the incident, is critical of the military but takes a long term view with regard to a solution.
The term is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at " stealing " power, money, or freedom, from " the people ".
Uribe's supporters in turn believe that increased military action is a necessary prelude to any serious negotiation attempt with the guerrillas and that the increased security situation will help to, in the long term, focus more actively on reducing most wide-scale abuses and human rights violations on the part of both the armed groups and any rogue security forces that might have links to the paramilitaries.
Although his term lasted only six months instead of twelve ( except for the Dictatorships of Sulla and Caesar ), all other magistrates reported to the dictator ( except for the tribunes of the plebs-although they could not veto any of the dictator's acts ), granting the dictator absolute authority in both civil and military matters throughout the Republic.
* Commander critical information requirement-a term in the US military
* Combat service support, a term for military logistics
East-West tensions increased during the first term of U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( 1981 – 1985 ), reaching levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as Reagan increased US military spending to 7 % of the GDP.
Depiction of crossfireA crossfire ( also known as interlocking fire ) is a military term for the siting of weapons ( often automatic weapons such as assault rifles or sub-machine guns ) so that their arcs of fire overlap.
Real Academia Española .</ ref > As a military term, the word quijote refers to cuisses, part of a full suit of plate armour protecting the thighs.
At the age of 18, he went to Athens for his two-year term of military service.
Espionage is often part of an institutional effort by a government or commercial concern, however the term is generally associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies primarily for military purposes.
From there, the term migrated into military slang, where it merged with FUBAR.
Although the modern term " gun " is often used as a synonym for firearm, in specialist or military use it has a restricted sense referring only to an artillery piece with a relatively high muzzle velocity, such as a field gun, a tank gun, or a gun used in the delivery of naval gunfire ; or in sporting use for a shotgun.
As the Republic wore on, the term of military service increased from ten to the sixteen years formalised by Augustus in the Principate.
Most of Carías's first term in office was devoted to efforts to avoid financial collapse, improve the military, engage in a limited program of road building, and lay the foundations for prolonging his own hold on power.
The term Honvédség is the name of the Hungarian military since 1848 referring to its purpose (" Hon " meaning " homeland " and " véd " meaning " defender " or " defence " thence " Honvéd " meaning " Homeland Defence ").
The term Honvédség continued in use as the name of the Hungarian military after the end of World War I and the dissolution of the empire.
This has tended to obscure the major events and political trends of his term in office, especially his role in maintaining and expanding Australia's military commitment to the Vietnam War.
The most widely-held theory is that the military designation of GP begat the term Jeep and holds that the vehicle bore the designation GP ( for Government Purposes or General Purpose ), which was phonetically slurred into the word jeep, in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV ( for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle ) has become known as the humvee.
Although the term was also military slang for vehicles that were untried or untested, this exposure caused all other jeep references to fade, leaving the 4x4 with the name.
Controversy has arisen over whether the usage of the term jihad without further explanation refers to military combat, and whether some have used confusion over the definition of the term to their advantage.

term and space
* Hex ( or cell )— in hexagon-based board games, this is the common term for a standard space on the board.
Today, Internet forums occupy much of the same social and technological space as BBSes did, and the term BBS is often used to refer to any online forum or message board.
The second term of the right-hand side is the convective rate of change and expresses the contribution of the particle changing position in space ( motion ).
In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”
The " space " in cyberspace has more in common with the abstract, mathematical meanings of the term ( see space ) than physical space.
In Laozi's Qingjing Jing ( verse 1-8 ) he clarified the term Tao was nominated as he was trying to describe a state of existence before it happened and before time or space.
He suggests that one element of this expansion in use " involves the application of the term diaspora to an ever-broadening set of cases: essentially to any and every nameable population category that is to some extent dispersed in space ".
In particular, some authors use the term ' compression ratio ' to mean ' space savings ', even though the latter is not a ratio ; and others use the term ' compression ratio ' to mean its inverse, even though that equates higher compression ratio with lower compression.
; Ma: A Japanese term that can mean " interval " or " space " ( i. e., 「 あ 」 という間 ; the space it takes to say ' あ '; compare " in the blink of an eye ").
In electromagnetic radiation ( such as microwaves from an antenna, shown here ) the term applies only to the parts of the electromagnetic field that radiate into infinite space and decrease in intensity by an inverse-square law of power, so that the total radiation energy that crosses through an imaginary spherical surface is the same, no matter how far away from the antenna the spherical surface is drawn.
There also exist planetary-mass objects that orbit brown dwarfs and other bodies that " float free " in space not bound to any star ; however, the term " planet " is not always applied to these objects.
The term pV is the work required to displace the surrounding atmosphere in order to vacate the space to be occupied by the system.
Some classifications now reserve the term woodland for an area with more open space between trees and distinguish among woodlands, open forests, and closed forests based on crown cover.
Dyson conceived that such structures would be clouds of asteroid-sized space habitats, though science fiction writers have preferred a solid structure: either way, such an artifact is often referred to as a Dyson sphere, although Dyson himself used the term " shell ".
Following his Senate term, Schmitt has been a consultant in business, geology, space, and public policy.
Non-terrestrial sources of energy and materials are mostly a lot further away, but most would not require lifting out of a strong gravity field and therefore should be much cheaper to use in space in the long term.
The term was in common enough use to appear in a fictional movie about the US space program.
More operating system code was moved out of the kernel and into user space, resulting in a much smaller kernel and the rise of the term microkernel.
New Age spirituality often makes references to mythological representations of the Earth, Moon, and outer space ; the term New Age refers to the coming astrological age | astrological Age of Aquarius.
This allows the definition of the term to be extended to include objects for which it is difficult to define clearly a natural underlying space, such as the 11-cell.
In companies that use large numbers of cubicles in a common space, employees sometimes use the term prairie dogging to refer to the action of several people simultaneously looking over the walls of their cubicles in response to a noise or other distraction.

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