Precision war reached a new apogee in Afghanistan, where nearly two-thirds of the weapons used were of this type.
The second Ansari X Prize flight was flown on Oct. 4, 2004, by Brian Binnie and achieved a new apogee milestone of 367,500 feet (112,000 metres), surpassing the X-15 rocket plane's altitude record by 13,000 feet (4,000 metres).
But her posturing over Brexit, which reached a new apogee on Tuesday with her soon-to-be-infamous "that right, it's Scorched Earth Brexit!" speech, is thoroughly populist.
With its independence came a new apogee, and for a brief time Seibal became a prominent regional capital located on the important Pasión River trade route.
The proposal was defeated, but still, with the New Deal at its apogee and with other Western nations setting up state broadcasting systems like the BBC, CBS had reason to be vigilant about protecting its public-interest flank.
The very name and vision of our firm was chosen to challenge leaders and their organizations to achieve their individual and collective Apogee, a new level of peak performance, to win for their shareholders, their customers, their associates, and themselves.
After all, rule by a moneyed, mutually connected establishment is nothing new — and hardly at its apogee in a White House led by a former Chicago community organizer whose father was a Kenyan economist.
Typically, his buildings—scattered all over Brazil's principal cities, and reaching their apogee in the new capital, Brasília, built between 1956 and 1960 were curved or hollowed forms that seemed weightless, floating in the landscape or reflected in water.
"Tookah," her extremely poised new album, reaches its synthpop apogee with a track called "Speed of Dark," which starts as a breakup song and ends as an invitation to run away together.
First used for a full-length movie (Rouben Mamoulian's "Becky Sharp") a decade earlier, and brought to blooming fruition in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "The Wizard of Oz," the new technology reached its astounding apogee in the lips of Gene Tierney, as red as a witch's apple.
Gamely, Wilentz hops into her minivan — it's amazing how many New Yorkers arrive at this apogee of the automobile outright refusing to drive, as if their very souls might evaporate along with the gasoline — to interview state legislators, planners and shopping-mall moguls, intellectually excavating the shaky bedrock of this baffling megalopolis.
