Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheer fact that the fiercely nationalistic and independent-minded oil producers had agreed to any sort of production quotas. "Now you can call us a real cartel," crowed one senior OPEC staffer, after agreement was reached two weeks ago in Vienna. "What matters is not the production target alone, but the fact that we have set one, and announced it for the first time...
...program next year, a 90% increase over fiscal 1982. But unlike the fallout-shelter mania that followed the Berlin crisis of 1961, when the Kennedy Administration spent $257 million (1982 equivalent: $920 million) for civil defense, the Reagan program is focused on "crisis relocation" to evacuate probable target areas, and on contingency plans for resuming normal operations after a nuclear attack...
...project, including such notables as Commentator Jeff Greenfield of CBS, Novelist Cyra McFadden and Business Reporters Andrew Tobias and Chris Welles. Every story was read by a lawyer, but the editors are seeking $1 million worth of libel insurance. Thus far, there has been no protest from the chief target of the gibes, the Journal itself, perhaps because the paper is inured to annual imitation by The Bawl Street Journal, produced by the financial community's Bond Club of New York. Much fun is had with the bucket-thumping editorial-page style of the Journal's editor, Robert...
While the critical volleys fly between Baltimore and Chicago, some educators believe that both sides are missing the real target. University of Wisconsin Professor Elizabeth Fennema, who has been studying sex-related differences in math for twelve years, maintains that most female mathematical disabilities result from environment. Says she: "Neither study has collected a bit of data on the genetic evidence. Neither is measuring innate ability." She discourages debate over mathematical genetics, since she believes it is insoluble and burdens one sex with an implied deficiency for which there is no remedy. Indeed, the researchers agree on one important fact...
...fact that their practical excellence has been so profitable. But the meaning of excellence (serious excellence, not Big Macs) is essentially metaphysical. Excellent things are constantly destroyed, of course- bombed, defaced, or else misunderstood; a conquering army may some day bivouac in the Sistine Chapel and take idle target practice at the ceiling. But excellence is essentially invulnerable. It carries the prestige of the infinite with it, an ancestral resemblance to the ideal. It is ecstatic. For an irrevocable moment, it gives the mind what Melville called "top-gallant delight...