Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is true, some of the responsibility may rest with the President. In his 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan attacked OSHA for imposing nitpicking, burdensome regulations on business. Within nine months after Reagan took office, the agency made a major policy shift. In the most dangerous industries, OSHA began to target its inspections. It stopped making surprise visits to factory floors and instead began relying on checks of the companies' own records. Only if employers' safety logs showed illness and injury rates to be above the national average in manufacturing did OSHA staffers consider wall-to-wall inspections. To lessen...
...Bill Cosby is hurling himself through a series of sprints, his sturdy 6-ft. frame showing the form that won collegiate championships three decades earlier. The stride is long and smooth, and the pace is brisk through 300 meters (43 sec.) and 600 meters (1:48). Cosby beats his target times and beams with satisfaction. He rewards himself with a Cuban cigar the size of a relay baton and sets a faster goal for tomorrow...
...approached the capital, French troops fired a U.S.-made Hawk antiaircraft missile. One of the jets exploded in a green phosphorescent fireball, and the other fled toward Libya. Two other Tupolevs later struck the town of Abeche, some 400 miles to the east, killing two civilians but missing their target, an airstrip...
Aquino may reinstate most of her Cabinet ministers, but one case will be a problem: Executive Secretary Joker Arroyo. When she asked the Cabinet to resign last November, the move was designed largely to oust a rival, Juan Ponce Enrile, who was then Defense Minister. This time the likely target is a faithful friend of more than 15 years. Arroyo, 61, whose first name derives from his father's fondness for card playing, is easily the most powerful member of the Cabinet. The former human rights lawyer screens Aquino's official papers and correspondence as well as all requests...
...target paid little attention to these professional attacks. Jablonski is particularly illuminating when he shows Gershwin distancing himself from his oeuvre, finding new ways of playing his tunes at parties as if they had been written by someone else. After a rehearsal he exclaimed, "I think the music is so marvelous -- I really don't believe I wrote it!" Gershwin's appetite for popularity, says his biographer, took him even further from the critics; he could never quite forsake the Hollywood sound stage for Carnegie Hall. When a producer accused him of aiming too high, Gershwin sent a reassuring message...