Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably the only living witness to what happened when Nimitz ran the destroyer Decatur aground in 1908. The ship was conducting torpedo practice; I was torpedo officer; Nimitz, commanding officer, was on the bridge. We fired at a target moored in shallow water near the beach, which made recovering torpedoes easier. Then the ship headed toward a dinghy stationed to secure the spent torpedo. We proceeded cautiously, taking soundings. Since the bottom was known to be soft, there could be little damage to the ship if she did touch; Nimitz might have considered he was taking a calculated risk. When...
Harvard has long been a prime target of reactionary politically it has been called a haven for egg-heads, pinkos and idealists. Socially it has become, in some circles, a symbol of the libertine and the degenerate, boasting both sex orgies and drug rings. For this reason it is particularly important to preface any discussion of drugs with specific limitations in order to avoid exaggeration...
...hottest yet for any returning spacecraft. To protect the capsule, a new cone-shaped heat shield completely enveloped Apollo instead of guarding only the blunt end. It came through as expected, seared but intact. And three huge parachutes gently dropped Apollo into the Atlantic about 40 miles from its target ship, the U.S.S. Boxer...
Harris concentrates on the college market, which is not only vast-5,570,000 students spend $4 billion annually beyond tuition, board and textbooks-but also articulate and highly susceptible to experiment. As such, it is a prime target for the fiercely competitive package-goods manufacturers, who consider the campus the place to establish brand loyalty. By acting as a middleman bringing salesmen and students together, Harris has built a million-dollar business...
Treasury Secretary Fowler still insisted that "equilibrium"-an equal balance, give or take $250 million, between surplus and deficit-"remains our goal for 1966, and we mean to reach it." However, he hedged his confident earlier forecasts that the target would actually be met, calling both the price of the war and the nation's normally large trade surplus "imponderables" that could upset the calculations. Commerce Secretary John Connor sounded even gloomier. "The balance-of-payments problem is going to be with us in one form or another as far as the trained eye can see into the future...