Word: targets
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...details, seem willing to consider the plan. Among some two dozen ideas for reducing stockpiles that Block reportedly discussed with farm lobbyists, the lobbyists chose PIK as the most promising. Block can probably start the plan without congressional approval, but he is asking the legislators for authority to freeze "target" (support) prices at their 1983 levels for the next two years. He is unlikely to get that authority from the current lameduck session and is uncertain whether he should start PIK without...
Controlling Deficits. A flat and dangerous failure. At the start of his term, Reagan set fiscal 1984, which starts next Oct. 1, as the target year for balancing the budget. On Jan. 17 he will present to Congress a budget projecting a 1984 fiscal year deficit of about $155 billion, which is more than double any deficit recorded by a previous President...
...small region. We are at the crossroads of Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia. We are a backyard of the [Persian] Gulf. We are now a front-line state. Under these circumstances, we know that a lot of people are engaged in subversive activities. Pakistan today is the target of many countries. From the point of view of the Westerner, elections are a way of life. In Pakistan that is not so. We have lost half a country [formerly East Pakistan, now Bangladesh] as a result of the 1970 election. Elections to Pakistan are an anathema. Elections create crisis in Pakistan...
...first strike scenario assumes that the Soviets will accurately he able to destroy any missile by launching many missiles at it. But so far no has demonstrated that missiles targeted on a side will actually hit it. What has been demonstrated (and led to the military's claims of accuracy") is that many missiles shot in the same direction will land on the same spot--not necessarily the one at which they were aimed Wind and the electromagnetic effects of nuclear explosions will cause an unknown but significant amount of deflection. There is no military point in having five nuclear...
Buried beneath a proposal to tax unemployment benefits contained within the same paper, the plan to target teenagers as a group in special need of employment comes in response to the more than two million unemployed youths aged 16 to 19. The plan, one of several under consideration, proposes to increase the demand for teenage labor by offering employers a tax credit for part of the full minimum wage they would pay young workers. This translates into as much as a 50 percent reduction in after tax costs...