Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only out to raise the number of men in uniform to nearly 1,000,000 but to enforce an across-the-board tightening of the economy to pay for the mobilization. The job will not be easy-and there are many doubts that it can be accomplished by the target date of September or October-but Thieu is determined to push it hard...
...them planned for completion after 1970, these projects should provide a big boost for Pakistan's next five-year plan, which begins that year. The present one, even though slowed down by the war with India and a two-year drought, is producing very close to the target of a 6.5%-per-year growth in the overall economy. Agriculture is even overperforming: Ayub's dream of having Pakistan become a self-sufficient grain producer should be realized next year, a year ahead of schedule...
...graves untended, morality is a matter of picking one's way between competing absurdities, and the only sane reaction to society-to its alleged truths and virtues, its would-be terrors and taboos-is a cackle or a scream of possibly cathartic laughter. Sex in particular is the target, and the black humorists especially have been stripping away its pretensions to holiness, love mystery and galactic consequence...
Writing in the A.B.A. Journal, Reardo explains that the standards "in no way inhibit public release by prosecutors or police of the full facts and the circumstances of an arrest or of a charge of crime." The main target of the standards is uncalled-for opinions such as that of a police officer who says a suspect is guilty. And the rules "do not restrict the news media from disseminating information developed through their own initiative or resources about crimes committed or about the administration of justice...
...wholesale shoe salesman named Morton Eisen, who felt that he had been charged excessive brokerage fees for odd lots (less than 100 shares) of stock he had bought and sold. Nearly 99% of all U.S. odd-lot transactions go through two Wall Street firms, so Eisen had a convenient target for his suit. The firms were also vulnerable because the Securities and Exchange Commission had disclosed in 1963 that their virtual monopoly on odd-lot trading had led to abuses. Claiming that the abuses amounted to illegal price fixing, Eisen sued-to get back the princely...