Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elect has come to call on a labor union. We think this is a significant, symbolic gesture on behalf of the working men and women of America." Fitzsimmons had reason to be pleased: the visit gave a rare bit of favorable publicity to the 2.3 million-member union, the target of almost endless accusations of corruption and misuse of pension funds...
...first target of their attack was a long-standing conservative shibboleth--school busing to achieve racial balance or alleviate segregation. The Senate attached "riders" to several appropriations bills that would prohibit the Justice Department from suing local school districts in an effort to balance school racially through busing programs...
...soared past Saturn, its eyes constantly twisted and turned, switching their attention back and forth from Saturn itself to its satellites and rings. As a consequence, the scientists watching the television monitors inside J.P.L.'s Building 264 found the images more often than not cropping up on target exactly in the center of their screens. The secret of this wizardry lies in the lobes of Voyager's electronic brains. Hours before last week's near encounter, the computer memory banks of Voyager 1 were "sequenced" with a series of explicit instructions radioed from earth. So precisely...
Along the bumpy roads leading from the Iraqi border to Khorramshahr, trees and broken telephone poles are strewn alongside the wreckage of burnt vehicles. At Khorramshahr's gutted railroad station, Iraqi soldiers use wall portraits of Ayatullah Khomeini for target practice. At the huge port sprawling along the Shatt al Arab, stacks of mammoth loading containers, stripped of their spoils by Iraqi invaders, are tangled with rusted steel pipes and charred, broken cranes. In makeshift barracks built under pylons, a few off-duty soldiers nap or thumb through magazines to pass the idle time...
...Hidden Target, MacInnes...