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Forensics
adjective Referring to projectiles and their trajectories.

Sports medicine
adjective Referring to the rapid dynamic movement of a musculoskeletal group.

Vox populi
adjective Popular for berserk, mad, usually in response to a trigger—e.g., when Colin cancelled their date, Jo went ballistic.

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That capability threatened US security, given its application to Inter-Continental Balistic Missiles.

The dark side of the moon: John Kennedy's commitment to put a man on the moon in the 1960s is often quoted--most recently by Gordon Brown--as an inspired civic vision. Gerard DeGroot sees the reality somewhat differently

"The crowd went balistic. Everyone was booing, but Ant took it like a man.

Boxing: MEDAL PROVED YOU BELLEW IT; Fighter shows Games selectors got it wrong

A Clyde upset is almost as unlikely as one at Burton - although it might be worth remembering Inverness Caledonian Thistle's win a few years back and that great headline in the papers: Super Cally Go Balistic, Celtic Are Atrocious.

Football: PADDY ON SUNDAY - It'll not be Bonnie for Clyde with Bhoy Roy in town

* Up to 20 ground-based interceptors capable of intercepting and destroying intercontinental balistic missiles.

Building defense: missile defense construction on schedule, but over budget

The fatal encounter of the Jews with a canni balistic separant horde stripped of the restraining Judeo-Christian check of law and mercy claimed six million non-resurrected Isaacs and Jesuses.

Micro-Macro Criminology

Both should do the business with a minimum of fuss but the bet may be Balistic Missile to follow up last week's course and distance win when he goes in the 9.35pm over 645m.

Wandering knows where winning line is; OPEN CHECK

Dave Bassett went balistic and sprinted from the directors box to remonstrate with the confused linesman, but the substitution stood.

Bassett's number comes up; Oxford 0 Forest 1

This joint Balistic Missile Defense Organization/NASA project will test sensors and subsystems that are potentially useful for defense against ballistic missiles by using them to gather scientifically valuable surface-mapping and other data while orbiting the moon and encountering a near-Earth asteroid.

Charting a course for cooperation in space

Manned bombers and intercontinental balistic missiles both provide long-range nuclear strike capability.

Merger policy in a declining defense industry

The use of large quantities of such decoys could make the tactical counter-air problem similar to that of the balistic missile defense problem in the exoatmospheric region, where the threat of huge numbers of decoys creates extraordinary problems for defense.

EW problems and some proposed fixes

The company's Bacara (BAlistic Computer ARtillery Autonomous) fire control system is now available and 60 units have been sold to Saudi Arabia.

Artillery on wheels: lowering systems weight to improve their strategic mobility, improving their mobility capacity on roads, reducing acquisition and operating costs, all those factors have led to the development of an increasing number of wheeled self-propelled howitzer systems

Hove has one of the less-inspiring open cards you will see but Oxford is a shade more interesting with the progressive Emmets Trade, in-form Westmead Gigi and up-in-trip Balistic Missile fancied in their respective contests.

In-form Frankie looks the call at Crayford; Tony Meek-bitch can continue her fabulous spell

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