Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REAGAN ADMINISTRATION's assault on the 20th century continued last week, and its target was a big one: the federal government's traditional commitment to defending civil rights. Reagan supported legislation approved by the Senate would severely limit the judiciary's authority to prescribe busing as a cure for school segregation...
...points across the road. Sunday is the day that Gonzalez sets aside for press visits, and lately reporters and camera crews have come in droves past the No Paso (No Trespassing) sign posted outside the 18-month-old Camp Cuba-Nicaragua. The show varies little from week to week: target practice, men running an obstacle course, simulated assaults through mud and underbrush. No automatic weapons or explosives are used; they are illegal. Finally, Bombillo Gonzalez climbs atop a tiny wooden podium and explains what these maneuvers portend for the hated leftist governments of Cuba and Nicaragua...
Though the study has no specific target dates for decisions. Jewel said he hopes to settle the main philosophical issues in his own mind and have "an idea if where we want to go" before next fall. when he returns to day. to-day responsibilities in the admissions office...
...week later, a Roosevelt decree created the Civil Works Administration. Within the incredible space of a month, Hopkins had put 2.6 million people on his payroll, at 40? an hour for unskilled labor, $1 for skilled; within another month he had hit his target of 4 million jobs. CWA workers refurbished 500,000 miles of roads and 40,000 schools, and they built 150,000 outdoor privies throughout the South. Hopkins hired actors to give free shows and librarians to catalogue archives. To someone who criticized such largesse for intellectuals, Hopkins answered: "Hell, they've got to eat just...
...slow motion. He sees the receiver he will throw the ball to, and he sees the linebacker he must loft the ball over, and, on those fortunate occasions when he is not lying on the ground by this time, he sees the ball in flight. Joe's first target on this play, Freddie Solomon, was covered. Wide Receiver Dwight Clark stationed himself at the back of the end zone and then went sliding in the direction Joe was darting. Under pressure and leaning the wrong way, Montana let go, and Clark leaped for a ball aimed where he would...