Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Original estimates called for the admission of about 50 students from the waiting list to reach the target figure for the Class of '67 of 1195, but the slightly higher acceptance rate will probably reduce the number of waiting list admissions to 30 or 35, Doermann said yesterday...
Last Thursday in Alabama someone shot William Moore, a white postman from Baltimore who was engaged in a one-man march through the South to protest racial segregation. Unarmed and unaccompanied, Moore provided an easy target for the Alabama marks-men. He died instantly...
...Walker led his last expedition. This time Honduras was his target. Eluding a blockade of U.S. and British naval vessels, he landed with some 100 men, captured a small town and then fled into the jungle when a British man-of-war arrived. Twelve days later, a bone-tired Walker was captured by a British naval officer, handed over to Honduran authorities, court-martialed and shot. "Had he succeeded," says Truman, somewhat unconvincingly, "he might have made a successful contribution to the organization of the Central American situation, into which he wanted to include Cuba-all of which might have...
...Spanish with the first families at El Salvador's Club Salvadoreno, mine copper in Bolivia, spin yarn in Argentina, produce drugs in Mexico. The resourceful investors from Japan, venturing where U.S. businessmen have become reluctant to tread of late, have made Latin America their No. 1 in vestment target. Though Japan's total investment of some $390 million is hardly in the same league with the U.S. commitment of $8.2 billion in Latin America, U.S. investment there is now slowly shrinking-while Japan's is advancing by $100 million yearly...
...Queiroz is a prose master whose message wears better than most 19th century literary reformers. He is not simple-minded enough to believe that Rome is the root of all evil. His churchmen are protected by organized ecclesiastical hypocrisy, but their depravity is all their own. Queiroz' ultimate target is no single human institution but human nature itself...