Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reliability of an ally, or the psychological and political consequences of a military operation. But there are also many things that cannot be done intuitively or based entirely on experience. Intuition and experience unaided by calculations will not tell us how many ICBMs are needed to destroy a target system, or how many C-141 transports are required to move a division...
...look up, and you feel like shouting. And then you look down. You kick your feet. You steer the chute, and head toward the target, but you don't really care about hitting the spot. Not on your first jump, anyway...
...experienced jumpers seem to be the only bunch of guys who assume the by-products of the "crisis", and concentrate on the various skills such as free-fall position (before the parachute opens) and landing on target. For this reason, they seem to be the only people who see it as a sport...
...simpler time." And in a piece lamenting a supposed decline in satire, he proposes an excellent canon for satirists in an age that has gone mushy with tolerance: "As long as any group within the society deliberately maintains its identity, it is, or should be, a fair target for satire, both for its own good and for society...
Souvenir. Today, on the wall of his Kassel board room, Fritz-Aurel Goergen displays a selection of letters from his German bankers. Written as late as January of last year, they all protest nervously at his ambitious expansion plans for Henschel. A target of $122 million in sales for Henschel, complains one of the letters, is "intolerable." Says Goergen, whose sales have already hit $125 million and are still growing: "Putting those up for all to see is the revenge of the little...