Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Currents for Tuna. Main target was tuna, a surface fish that is usually found far from land and therefore is not claimed as the property of any nation. Japanese scientists found that the different species of tuna inhabit different ocean currents. So the bureau's ships started at known tuna-fishing grounds and followed the currents. At intervals they fed out buoyed lines. Usually they caught little or nothing; most of the vast ocean is poor in fish. Then, suddenly, the water would come alive with tuna. Hungry Japan acquired another source of food...
...tuna fishing ground most recently denied them: the Russian rocket target area southwest of Hawaii...
Eastward over Siberia, and then out over the Pacific, soared a Soviet ballistic missile last week, headed for a target area 1,000 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor. Next day an announcement from Moscow echoed round the world: Soviet ship-borne scientists stationed in the area had determined that the missile traveled 12,500 kilometers (7,762 miles) from its launching site and landed less than two kilometers (1.24 miles) from the precalculated target point...
...Favorite Target. The anger thus generated turned naturally on Castro's favorite target, the U.S. On his TV marathon, Castro had charged that U.S. business was responsible for Cuba's history of "stealing, killing, granting concession, subjugating national interests." He accused the U.S. of sending light planes to make incendiary raids on Cuban sugar fields, and charged that "a certain chancellery" was plotting his assassination. "That is the Alpha Plan of the counterrevolutionaries" he said sneeringly...
When the Harvard Salt Water Club takes to the sea this spring its target will be no less than blue sharks. The reason for the big game effort is to provide rare shark bile for research in bio-chemistry...