Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...virtually no work at all. The board has heard not a single case in the past 19 months and is not likely to hear one any time soon. With an economy fever gripping Congress, SACB-together with its nearly $300,000 annual budget-would seem to be an ideal target, but the Senate voted overwhelmingly last week not to dissolve the board for at least another year...
...biggest outbreak of violence since the end of the war. Less than 67 hours after the destroyer Elath went down, Israeli gunners opened up from positions on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Their weapons were heavy mortars, their tactics a technique known as a rolling barrage, their target Port Suez-and the refineries that produce all of Egypt's cooking and heating...
...college students who oppose the war in Viet Nam, a single corporation, the Dow Chemical Co. of Midland, Mich., has all of a sudden become the most popular target for protests. Reason for student antagonism is that Dow, at a small plant in Torrance, Calif., produces virtually all the napalm that is being used by U.S. armed forces in Viet...
...shipments of American grain prevented mass starvation. But former Food Minister Chidambaram Subramaniam sees signs of hope. His country's agricultural skills are improving, he told the World Food Crisis Committee in Washington last week, and there is a real chance that by 1970 or 1971-the optimistic target date set by New Delhi planners -India may be able to feed itself...
Still, while Reuther fought for more fat in the settlement-which will serve as model for his next target, either General Motors or Chrysler-his workers' fortunes have worn thin. The seven-week strike, which has prevented production of 400,000 Ford cars and trucks, has cost employees an average $1,000 per man in wages...