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But in 1991, less than 150 aircraft were equipped to launch the precision weapons that did 90% of the useful bombing.
Now all US and British strike aircraft use precision weapons.
Moreover, fuses lit in the colonial era could re-ignite, as they have done, to everyone's surprise, between Ethiopia and Eritrea, where war broke out over a colonial border that Italy's occupiers had failed to define with precision.
In recent years, scientists have found ways to edit genes with far greater precision.
German precision instruments and optical equipment, for example, lost their competitive edge when Japan entered the game.
2008 martial arts students performed millennia-old moves with mechanical precision, while the flying celestials and the galloping torchbearer created a sense of heavenly abode on earth.
Our spending plan prioritizes the development and fielding of the newest, most capable technology, including Virginia-class submarines, fifth-generation F-22 and F-35 fighters, P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, new electronic warfare and communications capabilities, and improved precision weapons and cruise missiles.
To this end, China has been developing anti-satellite weapons, conventional ballistic missiles, long-range precision cruise missiles, electronic and cyber-warfare capabilities, submarines, surface combat vessels, multi-role combat aircraft, and advanced integrated air, missile, and early-warning defense systems.
The ASB centers on a “networked, integrated attack-in-depth” (a preemptive precision strike), aimed at “disrupting, destroying, and defeating” threats.
The signs of the fading miracle became visible when Japanese competitors and other Asian Tigers succeeded in wiping out substantial parts of Germany’s labor-intensive textile, optical products, and precision engineering industries.
Advocates of Brexit are remarkably reluctant to explain with any precision their plans for their country’s future.
The rules-based approach of the SGP is fundamentally sound, but it requires operational criteria that can be defined with some precision.
Meanwhile, some countries are focusing on reducing demand, through improved management and innovative agricultural techniques, such as precision and drip irrigation.
The World Bank, with its typical mathematical precision, has estimated that for every four years of education, fertility is reduced by about one birth per mother.
It also failed to adopt precision machinery that depended on electricity, which prevented it from producing machined components for use in assembling typewriters, cash registers, and motor vehicles.
The answer is probably yes, but the question lacks precision, and thus has limited utility.
The advertising business models they chose were leveraged by personalization, which enabled advertisers to target their messages with unprecedented precision.
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Peer Review have all documented, with more or less evidence and precision, a proliferation of abuses and an absence of accountability for them.
The benefits of information and communications technologies can be found in every area of human activity: better farming using GPS and micro-dosing of fertilizers; precision manufacturing; buildings that know how to economize on energy use; and, of course, the transformative, distance-erasing power of the Internet.
In West Africa, private companies such as Ignitia are expanding the accuracy and precision of SMS weather alerts to remote farmers.
For their part, ethicists must recognize that programming a machine requires the utmost precision, which will require them to sharpen their approach to ethical discussions, perhaps to an unfamiliar extent.
According to Christensen, most of the medicine practiced today is closer to the intuitive side of the spectrum, and only a few diseases, primarily infections, can be treated using precision medicine.
In fact, at the moment, the concept of precision medicine is incorrectly applied to improve only the outcomes of intuitive medicine, instead of identifying the causal mechanisms of diseases.
But, again, until the scope of precision medicine surpasses that of intuitive medicine, health-care professionals will continue to make medical decisions and interpret the data.
This has enabled health-care professionals to switch from practicing intuitive medicine to precision medicine, where they can apply standardized processes that predictably cure diseases.
One day, when we have gained a similar level of understanding of the biochemistry and physiology of the human body, precision medicine will be applied to all disease categories.
Just as rules-based processes have laid the groundwork for self-driving vehicles, rules-based precision medicine will steadily increase the importance of automated super-machines in health care.
Practicing more precision medicine than intuitive medicine will make health care simpler, more accessible, and less expensive.
Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology , argues that the way to manipulate things with atomic precision is with nano-scale machines.
He sees a world in which incredibly tiny self-replicating robots, which he calls "assemblers," will do all the work, guiding chemical reactions by positioning reactive molecules with atomic precision.
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