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From now on, we can fire thousands of these rockets all over the world with very little cost.
We are now in a position like that of the British Interplanetary Society of the 1930s which described how multistage liquid-fueled rockets could reach the Moon and pointed to early rockets as illustrations of the basic principle.
Another question from the examinations read " Fire-arms began with the use of rockets in the dynasty of Chou ( B. C. 1122-255 )-- in what book do we first meet with the word p ' ao, now used for cannon ?".
Although the rule still applies, the visible fuselage " waisting " can only be seen on a few aircraft, such as the B-1B Lancer, Learjet 60, and the Tupolev Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' — the same effect is now achieved by careful positioning of aircraft components, like the boosters and cargo bay on rockets ; the jet engines in front of ( and not directly below ) the wings of the Airbus A380 ; the jet engines behind ( and not purely at the side of ) the fuselage of a Cessna Citation X ; the shape and location of the canopy on the F-22 Raptor ; and the image of the Airbus A380 above showing obvious area rule shaping at the wing root, which is practically invisible from any other angle.
Mark Twain went to see Beecher in the pulpit and described the pastor " sawing his arms in the air, howling sarcasms this way and that, discharging rockets of poetry and exploding mines of eloquence, halting now and then to stamp his foot three times in succession to emphasize a point.
* Iraq flattens six more Al Samoud 2 missiles, meaning the country has now destroyed 34 of its known stock of 100 of the banned rockets.
The earliest experiments with multistage rockets in Europe were made in 1551 by Austrian Conrad Haas ( 1509 – 1576 ), the arsenal master of the town of Hermannstadt, Transylvania ( now Sibiu / Hermannstadt, Romania ).
In addition to more than 100 rockets, an increasing number of high-altitude balloons ( up to now more than 50 ; e. g. HEXE ) have been used to carry out experiments at high altitudes.
Things get worse when Jimmy's jet pack sets the living room on fire ( breaking a rule that no rockets are allowed in the house ), and Jimmy is now grounded.
Quatermass and the Rocket Group, now including Paula and mathematical genius Dr. Leo Pugh, are recovering from the news that one of the two nuclear Quatermass II rockets has exploded during a ground test in Australia, killing hundreds of staff and ending their project to build permanent bases on The Moon.
We engaged many cells and now there are fewer Hamas members to shoot rockets ," he says.
The Viking rocket series of sounding rockets were designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company ( now Lockheed-Martin ) under the direction of the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory ( NRL ).
Similar devices are now extensively used in large, steerable rockets and in space vehicles.
Sabha Oasis, near Sabha, was the test site of OTRAG rockets, after launching was no longer possible in Shaba North in Zaire ( now Democratic Republic of Congo ).
This unexpected event was a source of pride to the Soviets and shock to the Americans, who could now potentially be surprise attacked by nuclear-tipped Soviet rockets in under 30 minutes.
They then discover that there are not enough undamaged rockets to stabilize its now rapidly deteriorating orbit.
The original game's five standard weapons-mines, rockets, autocannons, homing missiles, and mortars-are now supplanted by flamethrowers, with each weapon now capable of performing three special attacks using movements on the control pad.
Despite his new body ( still a jaguar but now bipedal ), his alternate mode was still a cassette tape ( a nod to Ravage's original form, the CGI version matching his 1984 cell-animated illustration ; his action figure, a retooling of Transmetal Cheetor transforms into a jaguar equipped with powerful rocketsthe easier of the two classic forms to recreate ).

now and have
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.
Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
They have pulled out all my teeth and now she will carve out my tongue with her hacksaw!!
As for states' rights, they have never counted in the thinking of my liberal friends except as irritations of a minor and immoral nature which exist now only as anachronisms.
Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.
The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.
Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
`` We have now a national character to establish '', Washington wrote in 1783.
And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).
In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.
But now we can keep it out no longer, because we have come into a time when `` it invades our experience at every moment.
The primary quality of that view seems, now, to have been its quietness, but that cannot at the time have impressed us.
Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.
Men continuously at the head of growing enterprises can acquire experiences of the most varied, complicated and trying type so that at maturation they have developed the competence and willingness to accept the personal responsibility so sorely needed now.
Strikes should be declared illegal against corporations because disagreements would have to be settled by government representatives acting as controllers of the corporation whose responsibility to the state would now be defined against proprietorship because employees and proprietors must be completely interdependent, as they are each a part of the whole.
Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
But, just as we drew on Europe for assistance in our earlier years, so now do these new and emerging nations that do have this faith and determination deserve help.
By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.
Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.
If he borrowed money from Shakespeare or with his help, he would now have been able to repay the loan.

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