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Word: targetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets to add offensive missiles than for us to add defenses, we will merely provoke an increase in the offense without being more secure. 3) It must be relatively invulnerable. If it is easy to destroy or foil an SDI by surprise attack, it will be a tempting target creating instability in times of crises...

Author: By Joseph S. Nye jr., | Title: Politics is Harder Than Physics | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...Reaganites' contention that the economy needs some juice. "There is a broad consensus on monetary policy on the board right now," says Johnson. For the past three months the governors have let the basic money supply grow at a 16% annual rate -- much faster than the 3%-to-8% target range that the Fed originally set for this year. That accommodating policy has allowed the growth rate in the gross national product to bounce up from .6% in the second quarter to 2.4% in the July-September period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Looser Fed | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...blank expressions, and the dialogue often sounds like comedy writers' Muzak. (Grodin: "I'll see us all go to our graves before we lose this ranch!" Garr: "You go to your grave; I'm going to bed.") Burnett seems especially subdued, looking in vain for the precise parodic target that would launch her into an over-the-top lampoon of the kind she mastered on her old variety series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Raisin in the Fun: Fresno | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...team's main scoring threat, Bourbeau--like Fusco last year--is likely to be the target of opposing teams' cheap shots. But he will benefit from a recent mandate in the ECAC to clean up play. And his fast skating will help him escape the clutches of would-be attackers...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Fired-up to Replace the Firing Line | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

Gigli's eye, whatever it is checking out, is distinctly on target. If his label gives potential pronunciation difficulty (Row-may-o Gee-lee would be a reasonably safe try), the clothes, once worn, are instantly understandable. They indulge the body, bestowing a kind of inward elegance that the designer says "begins with how a woman today moves, how she expresses herself. Women today value their freedom; they do not want to feel compressed or crushed by what they wear." Like Ozbek, Gigli also studied architecture, but he works from individual pieces, not a grand design. The usual fashion practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Color of New Blood | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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