Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urban sensibility that goes beyond the city limits." The magazine is already available in 26 cities coast to coast, and the staff is working up a pilot for a possible half-hour series next fall on ABC. Meantime, there are growing indications that Spy is drawing blood from its target audience. A flack for the "churlish dwarf billionaire" Laurence Tisch was moved to call the editorial offices and point out, "Look, Larry is not technically, medically, a dwarf." Next issue, the technicality was duly noted, with appropriate sarcasm. Spy is not the kind of magazine ever to get , hung...
...major corporations that started buying up their own stock at bargain prices, in part to keep it out of the hands of would-be raiders. The crash put at least a temporary damper on mergers and acquisitions anyway. Several deals fell through because the bids made for the target companies suddenly looked unrealistically high after the general decline in stock prices...
Once Reagan had established a symbolic and rhetorical framework in which to function, he had only to flex his military muscles slightly to intimidate. Granada may not have been an impressive target, but it showed Reagan's apparent willingness to use U.S. military might to achieve U.S. political objectives...
Iran is a target ripe for serious U.S. ass-kicking. The spectical of the U.S. pounding Iranian military targets in retaliation for any provocation would not only meet with the approval of American prime-time viewers, but would also show in a Grenada-like fashion that the U.S. is here to play ball and not just take abuse from international gnats...
...their trajectory. China adapted them from a Soviet weapon called the Styx, first developed in the 1950s. About 20 ft. long and carrying up to 1,100 lbs. of explosives, the Silkworm can fly as low as 100 ft. above the ground as it homes in on its target...