Word: targets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite the fact that both economic sanctions and divestment target U.S. corporate involvement and effective support for the South African government, Bok stubbornly clings to the fiction that Harvard's continued investments in South Africa-related companion can lead to some meaningful change in South Africa. If he is concerned enough about apartheid to lend his name to anti-apartheid legislation, he should not balk at a prime opportunity to enlist something far more powerful to help the cause: Harvard's millions...
...Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. Nunn and others have criticized the Government's plan to place the highly accurate ten-warhead missiles in existing Minuteman missile silos. Critics say that the immobile basing system makes the MX vulnerable, and a likely target for Soviet attack. Since March, Nunn has proposed limiting the number of silo-based MX's to 40, and last week he offered an amendment to the pending $302 billion defense authorization bill. When Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole realized that Nunn had enough support to win, he alerted...
Many Congressmen would just as soon lower their sights to an easier target: a minimum tax on corporations and individuals. It would appeal to voters outraged by large corporations that pay no taxes (128 out of 250 large corporations in one study), and by wealthy individuals whose lawyers manage to shelter their income altogether (some 9,000 millionaires). A minimum tax of 20% for individuals and 15% for businesses is already on the books, but it is so riddled with exceptions that it covers only 0.3% of U.S. companies and 0.1% of individuals. Reagan's plan would ensure that both...
...helicopter cabin, Lieut. Frank Powell, chief of Philadelphia's bomb- disposal unit, hefted a canvas satchel holding two 1-lb. tubes filled with a water-based gel explosive. After lighting its 45-sec. fuse, Powell leaned out of the helicopter bay and dropped the device on the roof. His target: a fortified, bunker-like cubicle about 6 ft. square and 8 ft. high...
When a car bomb exploded on March 8 in a Beirut suburb, killing more than 80 people and injuring 200, there was little doubt as to the attack's target. The detonation took place just 50 yds. from the home of Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of the Hizballah (Party of God), a militant pro-Iranian Shi'ite group. Several of Fadlallah's bodyguards were among the victims, but the sheik, who was in a nearby mosque, was uninjured. No one ever claimed responsibility for the incident...