Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...project turned into a political target for labor leaders, was hit by 14 strikes. Because of haste in starting, the government did not even bother to take overall bids, proceeded on a piecemeal, cost-plus basis...
...demonstrate his support for the force, De Gaulle last week donned flowing white robes and, looking more Delphic than ever (or perhaps like a bather), inspected two key nuclear plants, Pierrelatte (which is reportedly several months behind target) and Cadarache. On his 20th provincial tour, he treated audiences to some of the most chauvinistic speeches they have yet heard from De Gaulle. He emphasized repeatedly that France "will remain detached" from the "two great colossi," Russia...
When new FCC Chairman E. Wil liam Henry stood before a thousand broadcasters in Manhattan last week, what could he do to be as wastelandish as his predecessor Newton Minow? Since Minow had attacked TV programming, commercials were obviously the largest remaining target. Henry went after them. Citing a recent case in which a disk jockey was told by his station to "play a record between each commercial," Henry told the broadcasters that there are just too many commercials being rammed at the public. He complained about the "bait, hook, switch, and stuff" tactics of late movies, which offer...
...circus. They roller-skate, ride bicycles and scooters, and hang from whirling trapezes. Three of them draw a troika. Two of them fight, wearing boxing gloves. They hook and jab at each other's noses with grizzly accuracy (of course, a bear's nose is a big target). They drive motorcycles in the dark, turning the headlights on and off and stopping for traffic lights along the way. They are so intelligent that they are painful to watch. It makes an American think of all those snobbish slobbish fat brown blubber-bottomed freeloading Yellowstone bears, who have...
Glimp said the increase was necessary because student requests for loans have been rising sharply in recent years and "last year to stay within our target of $600,000 we had to be realy tough...