Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This summer the companies will offer -- zap! -- the G.I. Joe-Lazer Battle. Like the original Lazer Tag, the $29.95 Lazer Battle includes a plastic gun that shoots out an infrared light beam and a target worn on the body that makes a beep when hit by a shot from an opponent's weapon. Both parts will have the red-white-and-blue G.I. Joe logo. Worlds of Wonder, which will produce the set, wants its Lazer toys to start reaching the eight-and-under audience, where G.I. Joe's name holds sway. Hasbro, meanwhile, gets...
This swing has been spurred by the insider-trading scandals, which find considerable resonance with Americans. Says Pollster Field: "The public doesn't distinguish between Wall Street and Big Business. I see Big Business becoming a target in 1988." Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman, one of the intellectual turbines of the Reagan revolution, masterminded last year's successful push for tax reform. He has attempted to formulate a conservative populism that would save the Reagan Administration from being inextricably tied in the public mind with Big Business and Wall Street. Darman has used the term corpocracy to describe the bloated...
Still, it was the first time in more than four years that the contras had struck at a target within the city limits. Muffed though it was, the attack delivered a warning that complemented the stepped-up rebel activity in the Nicaraguan countryside: the contras' urban offensive seemed to have begun. Sandinista officials promptly blamed the Reagan Administration. Trumpeted a banner headline in the daily party organ, Barricada: IT COULD HAVE BEEN A MASSACRE. In Washington, officials had quite a different reaction to the bungled strike. "They went all that way, got the charge wired in, then they screwed...
...real press conference, claims an aide, was among those asked at the first practice session.) He answered in a straightforward way, avoiding the jokes he sometimes tells to entertain his audience. "I was really nervous until practice today," said one staffer that afternoon. "The President is on target; he'll do fine." The aide then knocked on wood...
...rebels ambushed and killed 37 soldiers in two separate attacks. Meanwhile, a bomb ripped through the grandstand at the Philippine Military Academy in the resort town of Baguio. Since President Aquino was scheduled to attend a graduation ceremony there several days later, speculation abounded that she was the target. Though the N.P.A. denied responsibility, government officials suspected the Communists, disgruntled military officers or Marcos loyalists. At week's end, investigators were questioning four military...