Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent college and professional school graduates to spur its fundraising effort. In fact, City Year was officially launched in late April at a spring benefit thrown by the Voluntary Fundraisers Association (VFA). VFA, which was founded by a group of young management consultants, teamed up with City Year to target more than 1000 people by mail, inviting them to attend a dance benefit or to contribute by mail...
...years, U.S. and Soviet space scientists have agreed that Mars is a tantalizing target for exploration. Fragmentary data suggest that the planet may once have possessed a denser atmosphere, a warmer climate and even bodies of water. Many questions about life on Mars remain unanswered. So when Mikhail Gorbachev again declared only days before the Moscow summit that the U.S. and Soviet Union should "cooperate on a flight to Mars," ears perked up in labs and offices from Los Angeles to Moscow. Even the Reagan Administration, which has balked at similar Soviet overtures, was at pains not to dismiss...
...paper or as blips on a computer screen. The bottom shows up as a continuous line. Fish may appear as "arches," or inverted Vs, in which the depth of the arch corresponds roughly to the height of the fish. Some of the newest units can zoom on a target zone, allowing users to pick out a fish hovering a mere 1 1/2 in. off the bottom. Other refinements include alarms that signal a fish's presence and multihued video screens that are designed to identify various species by a color code -- red for dolphin, for example, or pink for bottom...
...single largest prize in November: 47 electoral votes. Raising the stakes further is the strong sense that the state could go either way this year, perhaps serving as the cornerstone of a Democratic victory in a close race. "It's winnable," says Jack Corrigan, a Dukakis strategist. "It's target No. 1." Lee Atwater, Bush's campaign manager, agrees: "It's up for grabs." The Bush team members are starting to argue that the Vice President can win without California, a sure indication of their fears...
...time when the capital is savagely partisan and gleefully destructive, a perambulating target as juicy as Meese just may not survive. Nor should he. He would do well to leave for his own best interests. "Part of the responsibility of a political man," says the political sage Richard Scammon, "is to take his lumps, whether he deserves them or not. He may be pure as the driven snow and his enemies totally unfair. But who ever said that fairness was a part of this game...