Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time of last week's announcement, ABC was not the object of a takeover attempt by anyone outside the broadcasting field, but at least one other network was under siege. Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina has helped launch an effort by Fairness in Media, a conservative group, to buy up CBS and, as he put it, "become Dan Rather's boss." The Washington Post reported last week that Atlanta's Ted Turner, the cable-TV entrepreneur, told CBS lawyers that he had had extensive discussions with Helms about taking over...
...tests the MX has given every indication that it can ably carry out its assigned function: conveying up to ten nuclear warheads to separate targets over ranges that exceed 8,000 miles. The missile, which is 71 ft. long, 92 in. in diameter and weighs 190,000 lbs. at launch, fires through four stages. In the final phase, a 4-ft.-long "bus," steered by an on-board guidance system and small propulsion jets, maneuvers to release the warheads on trajectories that would deliver them within 200 ft. of their precise destination...
...point, however, did Andropov indicate that he intended to launch a wholesale attack on the main pillars of the bureaucratic system, such as central planning and nonmarket pricing. One of the few attempts to decentralize economic decision making under Andropov--legislation to encourage worker participation in factory management--left the Communist Party with close control over its worker delegates and required only that managers "consult and inform" workers about their plans twice a year...
Takeovers in the oil industry are likely to go on "as long as you have undervalued assets," according to Joseph Fogg III of the New York investment banking firm Morgan Stanley. For its part, Phillips can rest easy. Pickens promised not to launch a new battle for the company for at least 15 years, and Icahn agreed to stay away for eight. But those may be meaningless pledges. With all its new debt, Phillips has lost much of its luster as a takeover target...
...simple though expensive method would be to multiply the size of the attacking force in the hope of overwhelming the defense. Some experts think the U.S.S.R. could double or even triple the number of warheads it could launch before the U.S could get a defense in place. A defense could be bypassed by bombers and cruise missiles, which, because they fly relatively low, could not be zapped from the heavens. After the Soviets shifted their main emphasis to ballistic missiles, the U.S. let its once extensive air- defense system deteriorate. Today it could not fight off a bomber attack...