Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration and many private economists still expect a second-half pickup. Right now, though, the slowdown has presented policymakers with a painful dilemma. According to the latest Government forecasts, the federal deficit will total $163.4 billion during the fiscal year that begins this October, about $20 billion above the target set by the Gramm-Rudman law. But some economists fear that new cuts of even $10 billion in Government spending could be enough to tip a weakening economy into recession...
...provide, by the end of October, a clean-sheet design (of solid boosters), which means that they are not constrained to existing hardware." Rebuilding the existing boosters, however, now seems the most likely solution, especially since it has the best chance of meeting NASA's current takeoff target of early 1988. This prospect, coupled with the go-ahead for a fourth shuttle, indicates that the wounded space agency is moving forward again...
Andy Rooney, the elfin curmudgeon of 60 Minutes, usually gripes about quaintly trivial matters like hand soap and junk mail. But in his syndicated newspaper column two weeks ago, he launched an angry attack on a more substantial target: his own bosses. Recent layoffs and the just announced demise of the CBS Morning News, he charged, were symptoms of a growing bottom- line approach to news that is unworthy of a once great network. "CBS, which used to stand for the Columbia Broadcasting System, no longer stands for anything," Rooney wrote. "They're just corporate initials...
...initials these days might well stand for Can't Buy Serenity. Over the past few months the former No. 1 network has been rocked by enough traumas to fill a season of Dallas. Last year CBS was the target of takeover attempts by Atlanta Entrepreneur Ted Turner and a right-wing group allied with Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Financially drained by its anti- takeover maneuvers (the company repurchased 21% of its own common stock for nearly $1 billion), CBS has since embarked on a painful cost-cutting campaign. The Broadcast Group last month announced that...
Jackson promises to redouble that dilemma for the Democratic banner carrier in 1988. In speeches and interviews, he pours scorn on anyone who will move the party to the center. His particular target these days is the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of moderate elected officials mostly from the South and West. Jackson sneers that its initials, D.L.C., stand for Democrats for the Leisure Class. It is composed, he says, of "Democrats who comb their hair to the left like Kennedy and move their policies to the right like Reagan...