"I didn't think they gave me a fair evaluation of my true capabilities".
The Air Force's decision to award Boeing the multibillion-dollar contract to replace its fleet of Eisenhower-era KC-135 refueling jets appears to have been based on a fair assessment of costs and capabilities rather than favoritism for the home team over its European rival EADS, the maker of Airbus.
"The delicate question was how to balance Libyan sovereignty with a frank assessment of their capability to hold a fair trial with international standards," said a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
The challenge for advocates of world order is to accommodate emerging powers within a framework of universal, predictable rules and global structures that ensure everyone a fair deal, appropriate for their size, capabilities and contributions to the international system.
While none of these sound like earth-shattering capabilities, each one would require a fair amount of development time to build from scratch.
Both would allow Crowdtilt to add further mobile event planning capabilities to its platform, which itself sees a fair share of fundraising campaigns around events and parties.
But I think it's a fair characterisation to say that they could delay but not destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities," he told reporters.
Rather, justice demands only that each has sufficient opportunity (in the form of resources or capabilities, say) to achieve a good life, or that each gets a fair share of the benefits of social cooperation.
Chief of Naval Research Rear Admiral Matthew L. Klunder, in somewhat ominous language, hailed the weapons test as a major technological breakthrough, so outclassing enemy capabilities as "to ensure our sailors and marines are never in a fair fight".
But even with co-sponsor capabilities and a network of venues, a successful Rabbl campaign can require a fair amount of user effort.
