Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel gadgetry that made Homing Overlay successful is a sophisticated guidance system in the interceptor's warhead. It is able, thanks to a remarkable infrared sensor, to fix in space a target as small as a human being 1,000 miles away...
...experiment, the fourth in a $300 million series that has been under way for six years. The three previous tests failed for various mechanical reasons. According to the spokesmen, the point of the experiment is to prove that incoming missiles can be destroyed well before they reach their targets without resorting to defensive nuclear explosions. Some scientists believe that radioactive fallout from such interceptions would be minimal, since the target warheads would be demolished without exploding. The Army insisted that Homing Overlay was "completely and absolutely compliant" with the 1972 anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty between...
...CRUISE MISSILE: A jet-powered drone that flies, or "cruises," through the atmosphere, rather than arcing into space on a ballistic trajectory, like a rocket. The cruise missile finds its way to a target by matching the terrain over which it flies against a map stored in its computerized brain. Because it is small (about 18 ft. long) and flies very low, it is difficult for the Air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) on test flight enemy to track and intercept. There are three varieties: the air-launched cruise missile, ALCM (pronounced al-kum), which is fired from a bomber...
...TARGET of Bob Woodward's latest investigative efforts had been a politician rather than as actor--and if the point had been to illustrate the seamy underside of Washington rather than Hollywood--nobody would have said anything. The backroom deals, the corruption, the slime of Captial Hill, i.e., the stuff that made Woodward big-time--that's okay for public consumption, the more so since Woodward and sidekick Carl Bernstein took that gloss off politicos for good with their reporting on Watergate in the early 1970s...
...turns clever, dominating, quick-tempered and stubborn, British Industrialist Sir James Goldsmith, 51, rarely fails to excite speculation over his next takeover target. Last week the balding, staccato-voiced conglomerateur offered Continental Group, a company that had 1983 revenues of $5 billion from products that range from tin cans to life insurance, $50 a share for its stock, or $2.1 billion in cash. Said he: "It is a very good company. We admire the management...