Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfairly nabbed for speeding. Dale Smith, a Dayton-area electronics whiz, dubbed his creation Fuzzbuster I. The theory behind the device is simple. Police radar sets bounce a microwave beam off an approaching car or truck in order to measure the speed at which the vehicle is moving. The target must be in a direct line of sight with the radar transmitter before an accurate reading can be taken. The radar emissions, however, can be detected by a simple electronic receiving device from a distance of a mile or more. When a Fuzzbuster-style receiver picks up such waves...
Researchers focus instead on basic scientific study, and they receive industry support because "they are leaders in their field and companies hope for rare basic findings that will give them a window on current science and help them target internal research resources more effectively," Brinton said...
...chief and her husband had shown to a Portland businessman being investigated in a cocaine probe; it recommended a 25-day suspension of Gary Harrington. Penny Harrington, who declared herself "shocked" by the findings, was almost certainly made more vulnerable by the mayor's own troubles: Clark is the target of a recall effort...
...Morris Topol accused Hart of "thumbing her nose at the court" by failing to appear on a disorderly conduct charge brought last year, when she purportedly disrupted a lecture by Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland. To protest the cleric's alleged support of the International Monetary Fund, a perennial LaRouche target, Hart handed Weakland a piece of raw liver, calling it a pound of flesh. Hart's attorney said she was unable to appear in court last week because she was in West Germany "campaigning for patriots" in that country's upcoming parliamentary elections. Hart garnered attention earlier this spring...
...Business also makes the American press its target in a how-to book by Herb Schmertz called Good-bye to the Low Profile. Schmertz is the public relations fellow who earns praise for Mobil Oil's sponsorship of public television's Masterpiece Theater and mixed notices for Mobil's disputatious ads in newspapers and magazines. He believes in practicing contentiousness on the press. His advice is often shrewd: "If there's something you want to hide, but are required to disclose, put it in a press release . . . Most journalists find it hard to take seriously what you give them willingly...