Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, in his analysis winning is not either. He takes what he calls "a Zenistic view." A single well-executed shot is what stirs him. "You have to be psyched up, yet calm and as motionless as possible. Timing is vital. You shoot between heartbeats. My heartbeat throws my aim clear off the target. Then you have to read the wind. That's the worst four-letter word in archery. With all those variables to consider and compensate for, an excellent shot is a great reward...
...Brobdingnagian women, will sit my students. It is supposed to help them relax. . . Not long ago Rocky McBeth made a final application to the dean to purchase some old Royal Canadian Air Force parachutes. He wanted to hang them from the classroom ceilings to cover the windows. The aim was to help nervous students let themselves go and concentrate more fully on the arts and sciences...
...civil rights creed, which includes opposition to quotas and other coercive remedies for discrimination. The letters apparently grew out of talks between Pendleton and two of the Administration's leading civil rights conservatives, Counsellor Edwin Meese and William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Their aim: to keep Reagan true to his conservative beliefs. Pendleton said he wrote the letters to let the President know "there are people who believe in his original agenda...
...AIM-54C Phoenix air-to-air missile has become a symbol for both critics and supporters of the Pentagon's penchant for high-tech weaponry: at $950,000 a shot, it is designed to be launched from the Navy's supersophisticated F-14 fighter jets and to home in on enemy planes using computer-guided radar - when it works. Last week the Navy, which budgeted $388.7 million for the missiles this fiscal year, publicly complained about the quality of the product. It told Hughes Aircraft Co. it would no longer accept shipments because of "marginal workmanship." Said...
...Navy said it had discovered faulty welding and incorrect coding of electrical wires in the AIM-54C after a team of technicians disassembled a production-line missile last month. The Navy has already received 2,500 Phoenixes and has 373 more on order this year. A Navy technical team in Tucson is dissecting two more Hughes missiles to determine how serious the slip-ups have been. In the meantime the Navy is soliciting signs of interest from other suppliers. Said a Navy official: "I have a feeling this will shake things up quite a bit and Hughes will rapidly...