Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lethal punch" is thus "ideal for use in tough limited war conditions in all climates." One transport is a "tough, roomy, dependable" aircraft, and the catalogue says of the AEL 4111 Snipe aerial drone for antiaircraft gunners: "The morale effect on weapons crews who are able to see their target destroyed is incalculable...
After the jury's decision, the county board of supervisors demanded a thorough investigation of the 28-member Signal Hill force, which is the target of at least three other brutality inquiries. The prosecution, heavily dependent on the testimony of one or two of the implicated officers who may turn state's evidence in exchange for immunity, will probably reach a grand jury by the end of the month...
...only Nicaraguan newspaper not aligned with the government, which also controls 80% of the radio and TV stations. As it chronicled the revolution's mounting failures, the daily, now edited by Chamorro's son, Pedro Joaquín Jr., 30, once more found itself the principal target of a regime that does not tolerate dissent. Chamorro's widow Violeta, an original member of the revolutionary government, resigned in March 1980, offering reasons of health, to concentrate on helping her son with the paper. One month later, La Prensa was paralyzed by a Sandinista-induced labor dispute that...
...folks who gravitate toward the Lampoon, however, are obsessive about everything. They are the ultimate transparent eyeballs, indiscriminately bringing in everything they can see, anything that will increase their store of information. And the most obvious target for obsessive youngsters is the part of society that produces stimulation constantly--in short, television. So these guys start to learn everything about television, and, as kids, they gravitate toward the tube's broad horizon of situation comedies. My guess is that you could walk into the Lampoon castle tomorrow, ask the inhabitants to sing the theme song from That Girl...
...approach, acidly noted that the hardened silos would hardly make the MX invulnerable. "What is recommended does not enhance the survivability of the MX missile," he asserted. Democrat Henry Jackson of Washington argued that by shielding the MXs in fixed silos, "we're giving the Soviets a better target." Weinberger quickly fired back: "I don't agree, Senator." The Secretary pointed out that the silos solution was only temporary, and that strengthening the silos did protect the missiles. Said Weinberger: "Whatever we gain is worth...