Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columbus offered $98,000 to the first Ohioan bringing in a locally found piece of the Skylab wreckage within 98 hours of impact. In Atlanta, callers could win yellow T shirts bearing a bull's-eye and the words I'M AN OFFICIAL WQXI-AM 79 SKYLAB TARGET...
...mercy of forces they cannot control," he explained. "Concern is mild, but it's there." An ad hoc Spokane, Wash., group called the Skylab Self-Defense Society hung a 15-ft. bull's-eye on the side of a downtown office building and suggested, "Make Spokane the target for Skylab's landing. If you give the Government a target to shoot at, it's bound to miss. That is our greatest protection." Throughout the U.S., Skylab "survival kits," usually including plastic helmets and targets, were selling well. There were also numerous office lotteries based on when or where Skylab would...
...cheap," mainly with leftover hardware from the successful Gemini and Apollo manned spacecraft programs. Astronomer Mark Chartrand III, chairman of New York City's American Museum-Hayden Planetarium, claimed Congress was at fault in its financial shortsightedness. Said he: "Hell, if I had my way, I'd target Skylab to fall on Congress while it is in session...
...drums filled with liquid explosives on the barrios that rebels of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) have controlled for the past three weeks. The savage air attacks killed hundreds of innocent civilians, who were unable to reach the precarious safety of makeshift shelters or flee from the target zone. By the time the Sandinista guerrillas withdrew from the area to prepare a counterattack, the streets of the barrios were filled with bodies...
...usually dry, windy weather this spring, the 1979 Soviet grain crop could come in at between 170 million and 210 million metric tons; that would be far under the record 237 million metric tons harvested in 1978 and as much as 25% below the Kremlin's target for this year...