Word: targets
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Giant particle accelerators are one target for possible upgrading. Currently the most powerful such devices use conventional superconducting electromagnets. If high-temperature superconducting magnets can be developed, millions of dollars could annually be saved in electrical and liquid-helium bills...
Attacked from both left and right, Botha is campaigning as a "moderate" with a ferocity that only Afrikaners could consider moderate. Choosing the U.S. as his favorite target, Botha at an election rally in Lichtenburg in the Transvaal declared that the congressional sanctions against South Africa meant the Kremlin "had its work done for it in Washington." Waving his arms, Botha insisted, "South Africa is the scapegoat of America's bad conscience, ((but)) the South African government is not prepared to surrender." Some 2,000 Afrikaners leaped to their feet, applauding wildly. Carrying his campaign to restive Stellenbosch last week...
...March 1986, Dynamics tendered an offer for 1 million CTS shares, which would have given it a controlling interest in the firm. CTS then invoked a state law governing so-called control shares, defined as the number of shares an investor must purchase to gain control of a target company. Under the Indiana statute, the voting power of such shares must be ratified by "disinterested" owners of stock -- shareholders other than management or the investor in question. The law gives the company up to 50 days to call a shareholders' meeting to consider the issue...
...Western Europe. If they are removed, the Soviets would be left with swarms of short-range missiles that for the most part are aimed at only one NATO country: West Germany. Thus the Germans fear that they will become more than ever the special, or even sole, Soviet target. West Germans suggest two ideas: 1) demand that the Soviets destroy ^ many of their under-300-mile-range missiles as well as longer-range types; 2) condition a missile deal on a Soviet commitment to reduce conventional forces in Europe. Says Volker Ruhe, a Bundestag expert on defense policy and adviser...
Khoury came back to win the next three games, but Engle's service game was on target, as he put the match away with...