Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insists that he will not cut deeply into the operations-and-maintenance account, which pays for such items as training, ammunition and spare parts and has been a favorite target for past budget cutters. He is also determined to avoid "stretch-outs," the common practice of maintaining orders for tanks, say, or fighter planes but buying fewer each year than originally planned. Stretch-outs often cause production to fall below economic rates, so that the Pentagon ultimately pays more for each tank, plane or ship...
...latest F-20 revelations come at a bad time for Northrop. The company, long a target of Government probes into bribery charges, is under pressure from the Pentagon to improve the workmanship on its $46 billion Stealth-bomber project and to speed up the delivery of guidance devices for its MX missile. Now Northrop must answer a round of new questions about one of its old mistakes...
Walsh told Gesell his first target would be North. But he asked Gesell to consider a novel alternative: trying North and Poindexter together but with two juries (one would leave the courtroom when the immunized testimony of its defendant was discussed); then doing the same with Secord and Hakim...
...appeal of the real. The press is the Holden Caulfield of the political game, always on the alert for phonies. Gary Hart was nabbed for philandering, and Joe Biden was caught barking up Neil Kinnock's family tree, but the media's primary target became Gephardt's populist pretensions. The Missouri Congressman needed to peddle the antiestablishment line to revive his stalled Iowa campaign, but he only invited ridicule when he imported nearly 40 congressional insiders to join him on the barricades. In contrast, the blandness of Bush and Dukakis was often exasperating, but it stemmed so naturally from their...
ALTHOUGH these organizations focus on diverse issues, their complaints have a common orientation--fairness--and a common target--elitism--but they lack a unified spokesman. The Undergraduate Council, which funds these groups, would seem to make a helpful, unifying spokesman. The nominal undergraduate representative would seem to be the natural leader for efforts for student justice. But students found that the council would not champion their cause. Instead of battling sexism in the final clubs, the council balked and seemed more interested in equitably representing the students who buy into elitism here than backing institutions open...