Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crampton resident Julie E. Gershon said that she and the other students of the all-female dormitory are "very upset," adding "we weary that the arsonist will choose a room-other than the garbage room as a target...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci came closer to a controversy by bringing up civil rights. But he tempered the issue by adding Harvard, a traditional target...
...computer system made a more tempting target for WarGames-style mischief than ARPANET, a Defense Department network linking 5,000 subscribers to 318 giant computers in the U.S. Operated by the Advanced Research Projects Agency to give key civilian researchers access to military computers, ARPANET could also be reached over telephone lines by anyone with a home terminal and the proper phone number. Hundreds of "tourists" have roamed through the system, many of them teen-agers who rode it like a magic carpet to computerland. The network's lines have been used for Dungeons & Dragons duels and its electronic...
...former Vice President, and each draws more support from Democrats and independent voters than all of the other contenders for their party's presidential nomination combined. But as the Democrats jostle and jockey on the hustings, the man they seek to unseat remains an elusive and increasingly formidable target. Ronald Reagan, ambling along at his own aw-shucks pace toward announcing for reelection, has perked up his poll ratings with a personal popularity that continues to outpace that of his policies or his party...
Battleships, cruisers, destroyers stood off the coast, wrapped themselves in smoke screens and hurled steel from 640 guns. Never before had a target been subjected to such overwhelming bombardment from...