AS IT bombards Serbia, the Clinton administration is sustaining a metaphorical bombardment over the question of the use of ground troops to back up the air war in Kosovo.
In desperation, he sometimes loads the link into a second or even a third browser tab as well, and bombards the website's server with multiple requests for the page.
But the sheer quantity of information that now bombards customers makes it ever harder for even an established brand to maintain visibility, as well as terrifyingly expensive to build a new one.
Liam Fox, the Tory co-chairman who led the little delegation to New York, has just splashed a large amount of the party's cash on an American software package that tracks the views of individual voters in swing seats and then bombards them with targeted messages.There is some scepticism back home whether the system can be adapted to British circumstances.
The Airtel mobile-phone network bombards its customers with advisory text messages: "Always wash hands with soap and water after using the toilet, before eating and after caring for a sick person" advises one.
"The Encyclopedic Palace", curated by Massimiliano Gioni of the New Museum in New York, is about how people order all the information that bombards them.
The neutron source is usually a high-voltage vacuum tube containing a miniature particle accelerator that bombards a metal hydride target with deuterium and tritium ions.
And Mars is certainly an inhospitable place; temperatures can fall below -100°C, far below those in Antarctica, and an extremely thin atmosphere does little to dampen the solar radiation that bombards a surface as dry as any earthly desert.In this section Closer to encounter Back to basics Faster, higher, no longer ReprintsThere are reasons to believe that the Red Planet was not always as barren.
Conditioned by evolution to seek pleasure where we find it, we are now in an environment that "bombards us with rewards that our bodies don't need and that do nothing to ensure our survival as a species".Countering that, he argues, will require people to restore the vigilance that their hunter-gatherer ancestors once displayed towards lethal risks.
Yet on approaching a Japanese colleague, the person bombards him with specific questions.
Mindful of this risk, Mr Haznavicius bombards us with reasons to like him.
