Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each morning in his office at the Pentagon, the Air Force general and his allies mapped out their strike plan. The target was not an enemy capital but Capitol Hill, and the battle was over which firm would land a multibillion-dollar contract for military cargo planes. The allies in this case were Lockheed executives working in tandem with the Pentagon to sell Congress the C-5B over its rival, Boeing's 747. In one of the fiercest and, some say, most shameless lobbying battles Congress has seen in decades, the issue of which plane was better often became...
Speculation that the Iranians were on the verge of opening a second front increased Wednesday when two Iranian F-4 Phantom jets staged a dawn air attack on Baghdad. One Iranian plane was shot down and the other dropped its bombs on the wrong target, hitting a hotel instead of the conference center where a meeting of nonaligned nations is scheduled to be held in September, against the strident objections of the Iranian government...
...Cambridge City Council's committee on economic development and employment began hearings this week on establishing a job creation and training program designed to target $1 billion of expected new development toward alleviating rising local unemployment...
Through a gulley and up a rise: almost instantly the broken terrain overcame the coherence of strategy. I could see one of my team members, then none. Then a figure appeared in a clearing 15 yds. away, wearing a red armband, firing at a target I could not see. I shot, heard the figure say "Eccch, you got me," in a conversational tone and saw a yellow stain from my pellet on his shirt. Feeling quick and clever, I ran on in a crouch. In a stand of small trees, too skinny for good cover, a red player...
...most imminent threat to the economy and to political stability, says Carli, comes from a monumental budget deficit that is expected this year to reach $46.3 billion. That is a stunning $10.7 billion more than the government's target. This huge spending is mainly for government subsidies of Italy's depressed regions, social security and public health...