Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Familiar Target. It was high time a decision was reached. Greece has just come through its second national elections in four months, and Turkey last week was stunned when a politically disaffected gunman fired three shots point-blank at Premier Ismet Inonu but missed. On Cyprus the British troops, who have been desperately trying to prevent Cypriots from slaughtering one another, were reinforced by 1,500 men, bringing the garrison to a total...
Ever since his bestselling The Education of American Teachers appeared last fall, James B. Conant has been under heavy fire from teachers' groups - and with good reason. The main target of Conant's book is the "bankrupt" system of teacher certification by which states dictate what courses a potential teacher must take in college to get a public-school license. The result, he charged, is that colleges are forced to teach insipid "Mickey Mouse" courses that turn out uneducated teachers. Conant's solution: abolish the state rules, free colleges to upgrade teacher training, make classroom performance...
...Italian left, attacking foreign investors in general, jabbed especially at Gulf Italia's vice president and operating head, Prince Nicolo Pignatelli Aragona Cortes, scion of a noble family that claims Pope Innocent XII and Mexico's Conqueror Hernando Cortes in its lineage. Pignatelli seemed an easy target: he graces Roman society's lavish dinner tables, is a jet-set sportsman, and can be tough in business: when his Ragusa field was mechanized, he fired 700 of his 850 Sicilian workers...
Weaver described the situation in Canton as "tense." He said that police had started target practice and that there was a rumor that the mayor of Jackson has alerted his special mobile anti-riot force...
...Neill's most Shavian play, Though imbued with much poetic philosophizing, it is nonetheless peppered with brilliant epigrams and witty repartee. For all its use of the historical Marco Polo and exotic sites in medieval Venice, Persia, India, Mongolia and Cathay, there is no mistaking that the target of this epic satire was the materialistic and acquisitive American businessman-a creature that O'Neill also examined in Desire Under the Elms, The Great God Brown, and Long Day's Journey Into Night, and one that still confronts us on every side, in a more notoriously tired form, perhaps, than that...