Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighters provided cover, 20 American attack planes roared off the deck of the U.S.S. Forrestal, heading southward across the Mediterranean. The A-6 Intruders and A-7 Corsairs closed quickly on the North African coast and zeroed in on their target: a desert airstrip encircled by tanks and protected by surface-to-air missiles...
Another U.S. air strike against Libya? Not quite. This time the bombs fell on a mock target near Wadi Natrun, some 50 miles northwest of Cairo, during U.S.-Egyptian military exercises last week. But the explosions that jarred the desert floor helped set off diplomatic reverberations in Libya and around the world...
...Incrementally yet relentlessly, Harvard today has become a national magnet, a model for imitation, and a target. Moreover, the trans-Atlantic orientation in 1936 has in 1986 become more widely international," said David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus...
...Coast label that has become synonymous with the new style, last year grossed $25 million. In a hard-driving business, Windham Hill's success is anomalous, for the label is rarely heard on the radio, and it advertises only occasionally. Instead, it relies on word of mouth among its target audience of young white professionals. It must be doing something right: Pianist George Winston, perhaps the best known of its largely faceless roster, has been on Billboard's Top 40 jazz chart a total of 184 weeks with his album December, a user-friendly amalgam of Bach, Satie and Jazzman...
Military spending, supposed target of budget cutters, always goes up after every legislator takes care of his home project. "It results from the continuing flight from reality," says Busby, who remembers the horrified & exclamations when it was first announced that the nation would run deficits at the rate of $200 billion a year. "We've lived with that four years now, and those deficits no longer have any effect at all. Nobody pays any attention. We are numb...