Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shot-At Target. Citizens presenting their opinions to congressional committees are also lopsidedly hostile. Organizations as diverse as the National Association of Manufacturers and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. have sent the Joint Economic Committee statements attacking the Administration proposals. In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee last week, one witness after another blasted one or another aspect of the tax package. Most shot-at target: the proposal to allow itemized deductions only to the extent that they exceed 5% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. An official of the National Association of Real Estate Boards testified that...
Povich gets his fun by gibing not at the performing elephants but at the mahouts. One enduring and vulnerable Povich target is Redskins Owner George Preston Marshall. Well aware of Mar shall's reluctance to hire any Negro players,* Povich improvised tellingly and endlessly on the same theme. "There was considerable integration in the Skins' end zone yesterday," went one typical Povich column, noting which Negro on the opposing team had just crossed the Redskin goal line. When Marshall and his movie-star wife Corinne Griffith (they have since been divorced) took a trip...
...Force That Counts. Today, said McNamara, "the size, variety and power of our strategic retaliatory forces still greatly exceed those of the Soviets. Allowing for losses from an initial enemy attack and attrition en route to target, we calculate that our forces today could still destroy the Soviet Union." This is the well-known "second strike force," and since the U.S. does not intend to strike first, it is the only force that counts...
...seven-story brick structure, designed to resemble a medieval tower, will be built opposite Longfellow Hall on Appian Way, on the site now occupied by three frame houses that Radcliffe uses for classrooms and offices. Target date for its completion is January...
...Staff (who reportedly okayed the plan), stand convicted of incompetence. They knew that Castro had a force of T-33s, and they also knew that after the long flight from Puerto Cabezas the B-26s would have only enough fuel left to keep aloft for 40 minutes over the target area...