Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consumption today (15 million bbl. per day) is even lower than the level of 1973, an achievement not anticipated then. Autos made by the big three domestic manufacturers averaged roughly 12 m.p.g. in 1973; today, that figure is closer to 24 (still short of the Government's target for 1983 of 26). In 1973, the U.S. relied on OPEC for 48% of its imports; today, only 30% of the nation's imported oil comes from OPEC...
...help the U.S. ships spot their targets, Navy officers ventured into the hills alongside the Lebanese Army. At one point, the situation became so tense that A-6 fighter bombers equipped with 1,000-lb. laser-guided bombs took off from the aircraft carrier Eisenhower and prepared to join the action. At the last minute, when U.S. officers diplomatically suggested to the Lebanese that the naval guns had done the job, the jets were called back. Concerned that the Lebanese Army command had overestimated the danger, some U.S. officers went to the front lines the next day to get first...
...happens next, the U.S. has little choice but to stay put in Lebanon for a while. To do otherwise would be to jeopardize the Gemayel government, alienate other moderate Arab regimes, radically reduce Washington's influence and prestige throughout the Middle East, and transform that region into an unchallenged target of opportunity for the Soviet Union. So the U.S. strategy will be to maintain the military commitment, probably at roughly the present level, until such time as a central Lebanese government is able to stand...
...Justice Department--which is charged with prosecuting evaders. That disorganization by itself would not be very encouraging as an indicator of how federal agencies enforce federal laws. But the more serious fault lies in officials denials of the confusion and their misleading insistence that prosecutions were right on target...
...Church effort fused with other conservative movements into the political patchwork of the New Right. Buoyed by the business dollars flowing into the New Right's free-market, less-government platform, the anti-abortion movement began to rack up political victories. Right to Life political action committees began to target key Congressional races--the same contests singled out by Republican, business and fundamentalist groups for support. Coordinated or not, the combined forces of these endorsements did contribute to some upsets...