The European system will try to intercept missiles in mid-course in space, where warheads separate.
Guidance was mostly by active radar, often supplemented in mid-course by inertial autopilots and in terminal flight by passive radar and infrared homing.
These newer missiles contained an inertial-guidance system that, by electronically communicating with the Aegis radar fire-control system, allowed corrections to be made in mid-course before the semiactive terminal homing took over.
In this category, there are three contemporary American directors, in three different generations, who stand out: among grizzled veterans, Terrence Malick; among those in mid-course, Wes Anderson; and among those just out of the gate, Josephine Decker, whose first two features, "Butter on the Latch" and "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely," are both opening today at IFP Media Center, in Brooklyn.
DeVita tries to find his way around the rules and fails — and he's heartbroken when he learns, after Lee finally succumbs to the disease, that abiraterone is so effective against advanced prostate cancer that the trial is stopped in mid-course and the patients in the control group are switched over to the new drug.
Schroeder concluded: "The contradiction between what Germany wanted to do and what she dared to do and was obliged to do accounts in turn for the erratic, uncoordinated character of German world policy, its inability to settle on clear goals and carry them through, the constant initiatives leading nowhere, the frequent changes in mid-course".
All groups received a description, and each group had 3 h in mid-course (i.e. end of the third course day) to develop the perspective provided them.
Moreover, changing the title of a book in mid-course without any justification (all agree, for example, that Ibn Kammuna himself gave no title to the work commonly referred to as the New Wisdom) introduces confusion with no compensatory payoff.
Mad Men is still in mid-course.
Fortunately for Brown, this all plays off his expansive programmatic reform agenda in California, which is now in mid-course.
And what incredible films -- I screened four -- of already-launched missiles turning back in mid-course and exploding in a field when the pilot saw a civilian appear on his screen, or saw that the targeted jeep was pulling into the garage of an apartment building whose occupants had not been alerted (as is customary).
