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Mobile robots
Robotic Vehicles Robotic operation Uses for robotic vehicles Resources From the late 1980s onward, robotic vehicles have become an increasingly important component of security operations and related activities. They can be used to gather information in areas where a human could not safely... Read more |
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The Celestial Railroad
Celestial Railroad, The, allegorical tale by Hawthorne, published in 1843 and collected in Mosses from an Old Manse (1846).The narrator travels the way of Christian in Pilgrim's Progress, from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Instead of going afoot, he finds that modern achievement has... Read more |
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Intelligence tests
INTELLIGENCE TESTS INTELLIGENCE TESTS. Although the tests created specifically to gauge intelligence were introduced to the United States in the early twentieth century, their roots go back much farther, even to exams in ancient China. The American tests, however, emerged directly from the work of... Read more |
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Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey 1767?-1822, African-American leader. After many years as a slave he won (1800) $1,500 in a lottery and purchased his freedom. Intelligent and energetic, he acquired considerable wealth and influence in South Carolina. Using church meetings as a cover, he supposedly planned (1822) a... Read more |
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Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Beaux–Arts, École des Paris, The chief of the official art schools of France. Its origins go back to 1648, the foundation date of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (see Academy), but it was not established as a separate institution until the Académie was dissolved... Read more |
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Kathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea Singer For the Record… Selected discography Sources Initially overlooked by the mainstream, Kathy Mattea has turned out some of the finest progressive country, folk, and blues of any performer. Mattea’s understated beauty and resonant alto are perfectly suited for... Read more |
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Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King1927–2006 Civil rights activist, writer, singer On April 8, 1968, four days after her husband, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was brutally gunned down by assassin James Earl Ray on the balcony of a Memphis motel, Coretta Scott King flew to that city to take her... Read more |
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Directorate of Intelligence
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holism
...holists, they were not content to reform scientific theories but also took up the challenge of finding appropriate paths to knowledge in science. Gestalt...classifying style of science embodied in intelligence testing that was becoming dominant... |
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The path to intelligence reform
...it must be shared by the intelligence community and those who have...committees in the 1970s and other reform efforts since then. It would...to point out that U.S. intelligence counterterrorist programs...balanced assessment of what intelligence can and ... |
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The Intelligence Archipelago: The Community's Struggle to Reform in the...
...mandated reform. Such reform is hampered by a lack...shared vision between the intelligence community on one side...should in no way stop the intelligence professional, historian...legislative bills-show the path of reform ... |
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Bush pushes bill on intelligence; The reforms are needed to "defend our...
...overhauling the nation's intelligence operations, saying the reform bill is necessary...the best possible intelligence. The recommendations...clear, sensible path toward needed reforms to our government's intelligence ... |
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Intelligence reform crossroads.(COMMENTARY)
...WASHINGTON TIMES The intelligence community is at a crossroads...The DNI was created to reform and improve the performance...agency managers down the reform path in step with one another...the president to push reform forward. * Match ... |
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Good intentions, then gridlock on 9/11 reforms
...then gridlock on 9/11 reforms -- Victims' relatives...each body takes divergent paths to reform U.S. spy agencies - paths that are so different that...relatives to call for tougher intelligence reforms.Joan Molinaro ... |
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Radio Address by President Bush to the Nation.
...American military forces, intelligence officers, and law enforcement...chart a clear, sensible path toward needed reforms to our government...produce an intelligence reform bill that will make...can sign these needed reforms ... |
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GEORGE W. BUSH DELIVERS WEEKLY RADIO ADDRESS
...American military forces, intelligence officers, and law enforcement...chart a clear, sensible path toward needed reforms to our government...produce an intelligence reform bill that will make...can sign these needed reforms ... |
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The President's radio address.(Week Ending Friday, December 10,...
...American military forces, intelligence officers, and law enforcement...chart a clear, sensible path toward needed reforms to our Government...produce an intelligence reform bill that will make...can sign these needed reforms ... |
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GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GEORGE W. BUSH DELIVERS WEEKLY...
...American militaryforces, intelligence officers, and law enforcement...chart a clear,sensible path toward needed reforms to our government...toproduce an intelligence reform bill that will make...can sign theseneeded reforms ... |
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Intelligence Reform Bill Blocked
...overhauling U.S.intelligence.But as CBS`s John...to pass intelligence reform by year`s end, but...campaigned to kill the reform bill.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE...he wants to build a path, but in the meantime...else to - quote - ... |