Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House, such polls are an important gauge of the incumbent Administration's standing with its constituents. For the Kremlin, by contrast, Soviet public opinion is virtually irrelevant, while public opinion in the West is a target of opportunity for propaganda. The Politburo need canvass only itself and listen respectfully to the general staff of the Soviet armed forces. The Soviets are driven only by self-interest, and not always of the most enlightened kind...
None of the clues have led police to a suspect. Nut is rumored to have been carrying on a stormy affair with a Lebanese woman and might have been the victim of a crime of passion. But given his intelligence connections, it seemed more likely that he was the target of a foreign operative, perhaps even a double agent...
...border settlement loyal to the Khmer Rouge, the largest of the insurgent groups. Three days later, and 70 miles to the northeast, they leveled O Samach, which is also known as Sihanoukville for its 30,000 followers of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who was deposed in 1970. The next Vietnamese target will probably be the camps of Ban Sangae and Nong Samet, which house 96,000 civilians and serve as a center for the Khmer People's National Liberation Front. That group is led by Son Sann, 71, who is perhaps Kampuchea's least-tarnished and therefore...
...Today and Tomorrow," details his views on energy and weaponry. Much of what he argues in both sections comes off as a complicated acknowledgement that he has no new solutions. When discussing the current problems with monetary policy, he essentially says that the Federal Reserve should get back on target. On trade policy, he states that he is against protectionism, but that when other countries engage in unfair trading practices, the United States should strictly enforce the rules in place under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which allows for retaliation. Identifying the shortsightedness of our democratically elected government...
...concern that many seniors have expressed is that with-holding their donations to the Gift will weaken Harvard's scholarship funds, the gift's target. But Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids L. Fred Jewett '57 has stated that University budgets are fungible enough that reducing the restricted scholarship allocation will not necessarily take a bite out of the total expenditure for scholarships...