Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown Coach John Rosenberg '67 says the '85 edition of Bruin football may surprise some people. "We are a middle of the pack pick right now but we think we're better than that." With 30 returning lettermen, Rosenberg may be on target...
...designed to protect troops from air attack, but its radar system was unable to locate even hovering helicopters. Although the weapon was mostly a patchwork of proven hardware, the computer that was supposed to coordinate the system never worked properly, and its auxiliary power unit provided a heat target for attacking infrared missiles. Charges of $84 million by the contractor, Ford Aerospace & Communications Corp., have been disputed by the Pentagon, which has already paid $1.8 billion for 65 of the guns...
...drew howls of ridicule. But Wick has scored some coups. It was the USIA that put together the tape recording, played with such damning effect at the United Nations, of the voice of a Soviet fighter pilot as he coolly shot down Korean Airlines Flight 007 in 1983 ("The target is destroyed...
...constructions, which include every kind of urban detritus--the crumpled sides of a child's tin train, theater tickets, cigarette packs, fragments of type and stenciled numbers, snatches from headlines and posters, feathers, wisps of cotton wool and gauze for atmospheric effect, wheels, burlap, glass, photos, a shooter's target with a neat group punched in the bull's-eye and, after his emigration to England on the eve of World War II, part of a food-ration book--are emblems of their changing times, sharp and pathetic by turns...
...northern settlements, the death of two Israeli soldiers in a south Lebanon ambush and a string of suicide car-bomb attacks, the country made good its vow. Backed by helicopter gunships and heavy armor, Israeli troops stormed into three Lebanese Shi'ite communities near Israel's border. The primary target was Qabrikha, from where, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, Israel has been attacked by Katyusha rockets. The Israelis ordered residents out of their homes, then conducted house-to-house searches for weapons...