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That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.
To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.
Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.
Also under consideration is an increased investment in Cunard Eagle Airways which has applied to serve New York.
An example of the overall standards applied is the 20-to-1 ratio established for the determination of that degree of cochannel interference which is regarded as objectionable.
The rules and policies to be applied in this process of course must be based on objectives which represent what is to be desired if radio service is to be of maximum use to the Nation.
The design of a mechanical interlocking frame is much like a mechanical puzzle, but once understood, the principles can be applied to any track and signal arrangement.
The bottom planking is applied in the same manner.
This is a penetrating description of our post-war illusion, which applied to other areas than East Europe.
In fact, a cash purchase of a corporation's stock followed by liquidation might also be an effective way to transfer a claim for refund if the Kimbell-Diamond doctrine is not applied to eliminate the intermediate step.
The 160-ml. bath containing the calculated amount of detergent is applied slowly and directly to the running specimen.
High-gain, photoelectronic image intensification is applied under conditions of low incident light levels whenever the integration time required by a sensor or recording instrument exceeds the limits of practicability.
The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.
It is assumed that the gyros are designed with electrical torquers so that a torque can be applied about their output axes.
In the system shown in Fig. 7-1, the accelerometer output is amplified and the resulting voltage is applied to the gyro output-axis torquer.
As the accelerometer output is decreasing, the torque applied to the gyro output axis decreases and, therefore, the rate decreases.
The voltage Af is amplified by Af and applied to the gyro torquer with scale factor Af.
Here again laboratory approaches are being evolved, for it is recognized how `` elastic '' these readings can be, how they can apply to many people, and are often stated in general terms all too easily applied to any individual's own case.
But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

is and implosion-type
In an implosion-type nuclear weapon design, a sphere of plutonium, uranium, or other fissile material is imploded by a spherical arrangement of explosive charges.
* August 9: " Fat Man ", an implosion-type plutonium-239 weapon, is used against the city of Nagasaki, Japan ( the secondary target, as the primary target, Kokura, was obscured by cloud ).

is and nuclear
Work is under way to see whether new restraining devices should be installed on all nuclear weapons.
Only the President is permitted to authorize the use of nuclear weapons.
But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in the immediate future.
For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.
It is quite evident that the people of Western Europe are overwhelmingly opposed to participation in a nuclear war.
The fact is that the Italians, French and British know that they have no defense against nuclear bombs.
I am referring to this country conducting atmosphere tests of nuclear bombs just because Russia is.
As I see it, if war starts and we survive the initial attack enough to be able to fight back, the nuclear weapons we now have -- at least the bombs -- can inflict all the demage that is necessary.
The nuclear war is already being fought, except that the bombs are not being dropped on enemy targets -- not yet.
Khrushchev himself is reported to be concerned by the surge of animosity he has aroused, yet our own nuclear statesmen seem intent on following compulsively in his footsteps.
Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.
Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.
The possibility, as he asserted, that the Russians may get ahead of us or come closer to us because of their tests does not supply the needed ethical premise -- unless, of course, we have unwittingly become so brutalized that nuclear superiority is now taken as a moral demand.
Besides the lack of an adequate ethical dimension to the Governor's case, one can ask seriously whether our lead over the Russians in quality and quantity of nuclear weapons is so slight as to make the tests absolutely necessary.
The Strategic Air Command is the principal element of our long-range nuclear capability.
However, because this vulnerability is mutual, it is to the advantage of neither side to destroy the opponent's cities, at least so long as the opponent has nuclear weapons with which to effect reprisal.
It seems reasonable that if general nuclear war is not to be one cataclysmic act of burning each other's citizens to cinders, we must have a manned strategic force of long-endurance aircraft capable of going into China or Russia to find and destroy their strategic forces which continued to threaten us.
But remember this -- it isn't the aircraft which is vulnerable to nuclear rockets, it is the airfield.
It is our lack of extreme accuracy which forces the use of very large yield nuclear weapons.
Af is paramagnetic, and electron paramagnetic dipole as well as nuclear dipole effects lead to line broadening.
It is important to consider and experimentally verify this influence since quantitative nuclear resonance is becoming increasingly used in investigations of structure.
Indeed it is possible to separate electron paramagnetic from nuclear effects.

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