Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Working with the UMRC, the committee sends its members on several week-long recruiting trips to Asian communities across the country to target talented students of all backgrounds to apply to Harvard...
...significant concessions on SDI calls into question what many analysts see as the one plausible rationale for the program: its use as a bargaining chip. None of the other justifications for SDI has ever been entirely credible. Partly for that reason, the Administration has made SDI a moving target for its critics, constantly changing its stated scope and goal...
...Road Runner, and the Laziest Woman in the World (Swoosie Kurtz) vegetates in a tidy mansion surrounded by the bleak glamour of the Texas plains -- civilization's affront to parched nature. Byrne's framing of the actors, like his sense of humor, is just off center and right on target. It gives all the performers (especially Goodman, who becomes tomorrow's star with his endearing turn as Louis) plenty of room to expand their characters from stereotypes into the deft cartoonery of a postmodern Preston Sturges stock company...
Glass, Wilson, Byrne, Anderson and others had their consciousnesses forged in the '60s, when formal artistic boundaries were as inviting a target as the windows in a college dean's office. Their minimalist spirit was a reaction to the arid formalism that dominated the postwar period, particularly in music. But the rebellion is over, the insurgents have won, and they now find themselves in the unexpected -- and sometimes uneasy -- position of having become the Establishment. Notes the Next Wave's Roger W. Oliver: "All these artists started in opposition to what was being done at the time. But as they...
...approach proved to be useful -- especially in the following years, when Lee made improvements that substantially increased the variety of reactions that could be studied this way. The method is analogous to that of particle physicists, who accelerate beams of speeding subatomic particles, smash them together or into a target, and then study the resulting debris. Herschbach's and Lee's beams consist of molecules instead of subatomic particles; when the molecules collide at about the speed of sound, they react to form new molecules, which spray in different directions. By looking at what new molecules have been formed, where...