Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON -- NASA says it's well on the way to fixing the things the Challenger accident commission found wrong and that it has set a new target--the first quarter of 1988--for flying the space shuttle again...
...membership -- a figure based on the percentage of nonwhites in the local labor pool. A narrow majority of five Justices upheld the lower court's order. Another Justice, Byron White, agreed that while in principle judges have the power to set hiring goals, in this case the 29% target was an impermissible quota...
...scotches the wit in "About Last Night," an expansion and dilution of David Mamet's 1974 one-acter Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Written as a series of blackout scenes involving two working-class pals and the two young women they fancy, the play was rancid, funny and dead-on-target. So why would Screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue want to turn it into a Pillow Talk for the nouveau quiche set? Now the story is about a nice girl (the exemplary Demi Moore) and a pretty guy (Rob Lowe) who triumph over their busybody buddies (Elizabeth Perkins...
...call progressed, Spence learned that during the 1984-85 school year she was officially enrolled in Section D and became a mythic figure among classmates and a favorite target for professors...
Harvard had argued that cuts to meet Gramm-Rudman goals would disproportionately target federal funding for university research and student financial aid. Funding for higher education, unlike some other domestic spending, is not specifically protected against sharp cuts under Gramm-Rudman, and experts argued that such funds do not carry the political clout to be spared of the congressional...