Word: target
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This was actually Williams' best response all morning, but it doesn't seem on target. As he answered, someone in the audience wrote on the back of a piece of paper: "Sign below if you would take a job at the Department of Education for under...
...Raab is not without allies. Bennett says admiringly that his "style is often imperfect, but the substance is on target." An official at the Drug Enforcement Administration who has sparred bitterly with Von Raab on turf issues says, nonetheless, "You've got to hand it to him. Willy has guts...
...precision raid. Israeli commandos landed by helicopter outside the southern Lebanese town of Gibchite early Friday morning. They slipped through the dark to their target: an apartment on the eastern edge of town belonging to Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid, chief military commander of the southern Lebanese wing of Hizballah (Party of God), the fundamentalist Shi'ite group with close ties to Iran. The Israelis burst in, locked up Obeid's wife and children, and carried Obeid and two assistants off to Israel...
...rules of engagement are clear-cut on both sides: if there is a target, fire. Thus the battle is largely indirect, as howitzers and mortars lob shells -- mostly inaccurately -- over the ridges. Infantry assaults are rare, mainly because it is so hard for men to move, let alone charge, at such heights and over crevasse-riddled glaciers. At 18,000 ft. and higher, even a fully acclimatized soldier carrying rifle and combat pack can jog only a few yards without losing his breath. "The terrain does not allow much movement," says a Pakistani officer at an outpost on the Baltoro...
...real good too. And there are some great truck stunts. A pity nobody -- not writers Michael G. Wilson , and Richard Maibaum nor director John Glen -- thought to give the humans anything very clever to do. The Bond women are pallid mannequins, and so is the misused Dalton -- a moving target in a Savile Row suit. For every plausible reason, he looks as bored in his second Bond film as Sean Connery did in his sixth...