As was done in World War I the German Navy's first line of business was to limit the British resources. ... Today the convoy system is a standard naval defense procedure that limits the threat to the merchant vessels from submarines. ... Their was a waiting period because of a number of factors, they had to wait to assemble the convoy, a longer route had to be taken, and the speed had to be reduced to match the slowest ship (MM-WEB). ... This may have happened because of something that was happening at sea, however there were other factors that helped limit the number of U-boats to enable...

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This innovation, however, led to the creation of the high-speed train. High-speed trains have greatly impacted communications in other countries around the world. The high-speed train system in Europe allows engineers to travel very quickly at an affordable price. ... Calculators have improved the speed at which engineers can operate and have made the work environment less cluttered. ...

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Although the name Billy Mitchell may not be a familiar one to many people, one thing is for sure, this one name changed the course of history by pushing himself to the limits until he couldn't go any further, and finally got his point across. ... On his first flight in a Curtiss R-6 bi-plane on October 18, 1922, Mitchell set a world absolute speed record of 222.97 mph. ...

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Our massive industrialization has become a global process that has either destroyed or transformed many previous cultural adaptations and has given us the power to not only bring about our own extinction as a species, but also to speed the extinction of many other species and to change the most basic biological and geological processes of the earth as well. ... "At the present time, we are clearly running up against basic limits to the earth's ability to supply the resources that we consume and to absorb our industrial by-products." ...

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Allen Lynch writes: The strong ideological tone adopted by the Reagan administration in 1981, together with its downgrading of arms control, eventually shattered a strong consensus in Moscow that there were strict limits to hostility intrinsic to the Soviet-American relationship.(3) Reaction in Moscow was reluctant and reserved, however in October 1982, one month before his death, he began an renewed awareness of American defense strategies and upgraded Soviet foreign policy in terms of defense towards the United States. ...

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Introduction The genesis of World War One was controversial and was shrouded on confusion. Pinpointing exactly the political origins of the war is a still discordant issue even after all these years, however no one can deny that the facts are still there. While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. Many new politica...

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