Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glowing with confidence after President Reagan's landslide re-election, the Republican Party last spring launched an ambitious drive to persuade Democratic voters to switch their party affiliation. Dubbing their plan Operation Open Door, Republican National Committee leaders hoped to win 100,000 converts in 100 days in four target states: Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Last week R.N.C. Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf declared the operation "a remarkable success" that indicated a growing political realignment in the U.S. More remarkable was the way the R.N.C. compiled its totals. In Florida, the Republicans claimed to have won 28,064 defectors...
...Pantry Pride, a Fort Lauderdale-based supermarket chain, offered $1.8 billion for Revlon, or $47.50 per share. Declaring that the company was not for sale, Revlon's chairman, Michel Bergerac, and its board of directors adopted a variation on the so-called poison pill defense, in which the takeover target makes itself too financially painful to consume. In Revlon's case, the company would allow all shareholders except the hostile one to trade their holdings for debt certificates worth far more than the company's stock price. Many experts think Revlon will be able to fend off the invader...
...climbs several miles into the sky and fires the missile. The two-stage rocket then boosts the warhead out of the atmosphere and into space. The telescopes in the nose of the MHV pick up infrared radiation emanating from the enemy satellite and focus it on a heat-sensitive targeting device. The device is housed in a small refrigerator; just as light is easier to see from a darkened room, heat is easier to sense in the cold. The jets steer the MHV on a collision course with the target. No explosives are necessary: a satellite orbiting...
...Soviets already have their own antisatellite weapon, but it is primitive compared with the U.S. model. The Soviet ASAT is a 150-ft., 2-ton rocket designed to climb into orbit and chase down satellites around the earth. After closing with its target, the Soviet missile explodes, destroying the satellite in a hail of shrapnel. But while an F-15 can reach launching position within an hour of takeoff, the Soviets must wait for a target satellite to pass over their fixed missile launch pads, which could take up to twelve hours. The U.S. missile can reach its target within...
Local cable channels, with their narrower geographic reach, can often target their ethnic audiences more precisely. The Jade Channel, a pay-TV service from Hong Kong, was launched last December by a cable system in a heavily Chinese section of the Los Angeles area. For $17.95, viewers get a schedule of Chinese-language shows, including a Sesame Street-style children's series, a comedy-variety program called Enjoy Yourself Tonight and a Chinese version of The Odd Couple...