Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strikes because their product requires continual attention through much of the year. Since the appearance of the fruit affects its value?unlike the case of wine grapes?the bunches must be carefully picked by hand. Because of their vulnerability, Chavez picked the table-grape growers as his first target. In 1966, after a strike, he got his first contract when Schenley Industries capitulated because it had a nationally known name at stake. Later that year he won the right to represent workers at the mammoth Di Giorgio ranch in an election monitored by the American Arbitration Association. Both Di Giorgio...
Pachuco: tough guy. Used of teenage Mexican-American boys in gangs. During World War II, dressed in gaudy zoot suits, they were the target of racial violence in Los Angeles and elsewhere...
...Government attacking companies not because they have done anything wrong but because some day they might. A doctrine that would allow the Government to flail at big mergers also includes temptations for arbitrary action. Some businessmen, for example, have suggested that it is not entirely coincidence that one primary target of the trustbusters is James Ling, the conglomerate chief who, whatever his merits or demerits as a businessman, also happens to be a big Democratic fund raiser...
...White House regards its Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system as the answer to the presumed Russian MIRV threat. Among his other warnings, Secretary Laird has said that the Russians are developing an ABM system of their own that can "loiter for a period of time until a specific target is selected...
...husband's turn has come. Where Mrs. Bridge served mostly as a target (roughly the size of a garage door), Mr. Bridge is approached with an odd mixture of respect, horror and wan amusement. The result is a strait-laced piece of comment on one facet of the American character more akin to Main Street than to the jocular psychedelic mayhem currently indulged in by black humorists...