The essence of "Inherent Vice," in Anderson's telling, is cherchez les femmes: look beyond the headlines and the history books to see the intimate stories, the privately decisive intelligence and authority of women who were kept, by the norms of the times, largely out of public life.
Technical forms of collection are vital, but a good human source is unique and can deliver decisive intelligence on our adversaries' secrets — even their intent," she said during a speech at the University of Louisville in Kentucky in September.
In fact, they said, it obscured a sharp and decisive business intelligence.
In order to guard against scientific or technological breakthroughs that may give other countries a decisive advantage, intelligence organizations keep abreast of foreign advances in nuclear technology, in the electronic, chemical, and computer sciences, and in many other scientific fields.
Perhaps no conductor will be awarded the kind of power that Levine has long possessed, although Gelb's intermittently dubious artistic decisions — notably, hiring Robert Lepage to direct a so far dramatically inert, at times inept production of Wagner's "Ring" — suggest the need for a decisive musical intelligence on the staff.
If the operation had ended four days ago, the message that would have been received in Gaza, Beirut, Damascus and Tehran would have been clear and sharp: Israel has excellent intelligence, decisive aerial capabilities, resolute leaders, brave citizens and surprising international support.
While the gap between the British and Germans was not yet wide in this regard, the British were starting to gain a decisive lead in intelligence.
"The decisive leads came from foreign intelligence services". Mr Sobotka said possible links to Islamic extremist were being investigated.
The logical inference from the facts is that better intelligence work and more decisive action might have reduced the danger, and might even have saved the fusilier from his fate.
makes it clear that U.S. intelligence has been unable to find decisive evidence that Iran has been moving enriched uranium to an underground weapon-making center.
Vessey's statement yesterday suggested no decisive progress since then, indicating the difficulty U.S. intelligence is having in pinpointing blame in what one senior administration official involved in intelligence operations has termed an extremely splintered network of terrorist groups.
