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Word: targetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With all the recent terrorist activity, the most expensive thing will be security," Burr says, adding that, "Prince Charles is an obvious target for some groups...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: The Big Party | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...didn't want to be heroes," Kaplan says. "Terrorists target places where Americans go." Goldman says his parents' fears, and not his own, will keep him on this side of the Atlantic for the summer. "I wasn't really worried, but they thought it was possible something would happen," he says. Although his parents had offered to help pay for his trip as a graduation gift, after the rash of terrorist incidents they told him they would only help pay for his vacation if he stayed on this continent...

Author: By Arthur Rublin, | Title: Travelling and Trembling Over Terrorism | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

...awesome sight. Her three sets of 16-in. guns, tooled more than four decades ago, are still, in the age of Star Wars, compelling instruments of destruction. They will hurl a projectile that is the equivalent in weight of a compact pickup truck out over the horizon to a target 26 miles away. The two-year refitting also added long- range Tomahawk missiles, medium-range Harpoon missiles and four 20-mm Gatling- type guns designed to throw out a "wall of lead" to stop incoming missiles. Combined with her 13.5-in. armor plate and 212,000 horsepower, the weapons give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Out of Mothballs | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Last week's news shook Wall Street like a 100-point dive in the Dow Jones industrial average. Traders are wondering who might be the investigators' next target. Says one broker: "Everybody has done insider trading at one time or another." Observes a senior investment banker: "People used to joke around about insider trading. Now it's in extremely bad taste to crack such jokes." These days, needless to say, Dennis Levine and those who swapped secrets with him are not laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Clouds Over Wall Street | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Deaver is the target of probes by the GAO, the Justice Department and the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. At issue is whether he illegally represented private clients on matters he dealt with as an Administration official. Deaver has asked that an independent counsel be appointed to look into the charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Much Ado About Deaver | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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