Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elementary schools are Klein's favorite target for the project, he said, adding that he would like to see Cambridge students get an "early start" in computer technology. "The earlier you learn it, the earlier you can apply it. At that level, it's important to use innovative teaching techniques," he said...
There is no doubt why the Soviets are so alarmed by the prospect of new U.S. missiles in Europe. A Pershing II based in West Germany could drop a 20-kiloton warhead within 80 ft. of a target in the Soviet Union some 1,000 miles away just eight minutes after firing. The ground-launched cruise missile, or GLCM, is even more accurate, and able to avoid radar by hugging the terrain, following maps in its internal guidance system...
...Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council's early advocacy of unilateral disarmament made it a tempting target for the Dutch Communist Party, which tried covertly to infiltrate local chapters. But in 1978, after delegates from Moscow were dispatched to lead a youth march in Amsterdam against the neutron bomb, the Council rebelled. Since then, the church-sponsored group has deliberately held itself aloof from the Communists, although some cooperation does still exist on the local level. This year the Dutch intelligence agency declared the Council to be free of Communist penetration, and Interior Minister Ed van Thijn told the Dutch parliament...
...letter to Reagan supporting Stockman and pleading, "We need him as part of the team," Senator Paul Laxalt, the President's confidant, significantly did not. Moreover, a huge question had been raised as to whether Stockman can continue to be effective. Certainly, he has become an irresistible target for Democrats on Capitol Hill. Observed Leon Panetta, a key Democrat on the House Budget Committee: "He was knowledgeable. But now the first question will be: 'Is this just what you're saying, or do you really believe it?' " Insisted New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...another company. Such a step would make the merger target bigger and thus tougher to take over. Just before the Mobil bid, Marathon announced a tentative deal to purchase the U.S. subsidiary of Husky Oil Ltd., Canada's 14th largest petroleum company...