Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system of "variable levies" which, at the end of an eight-year transitional period, will replace all existing controls. Import and export prices for farm produce will be set for each country by the Common Market's central executive, which will have the power to set "target prices'' (resembling U.S. support prices) for commodities and buy them for storage when high production forces down the market price. Ultimately, by gradual adjustment of target prices between nations, a loaf of white bread should cost no more in Bonn (current price per pound: 14?) than in Paris (6?), though...
...political moderate, Kuchel is a prime target of the ultraright, partly because he was originally appointed to the Senate by Earl Warren, who ranks at the very top of rightist demonology, and partly because he made a stinging Senate speech last year against the John Birch Society...
Most Indonesians sounded as if victory were a foregone conclusion, despite West New Guinea's rugged terrain and 5,000 Dutch forces. After New Guinea, hinted one official last week, Sukarno's next target may be out of this world. "When the full extent of our territory has been achieved," declared Sukarno's First Minister Djuanda, Indonesia plans to "establish national aerospace power to impress the entire world...
...Post's target circulation, 1,000,000, is only a shade of what Los Angeles' newest newspaper corpses boasted just before they died-and both were deep in the red. In a single day the Examiner and the Mirror used to sell more newspapers (682,919) than there are people in all 18 towns and cities where new papers began publishing last year...
...Jokes about the South, or the North, or the West--why not? I don't see why anyone should get upset about it," Donald H. Fleming, professor of History, remarked. "I don't know whether or not I was the intended target of the criticism, but I'm not above having a fair go at the South occasionally...