Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Foreigners found Moscow suffused with policemen and soldiers. American-made Friskem metal detectors were in use at many hotels, so that returning to a room was as bothersome as boarding an airplane. The Olympic Village, whose counterpart in Munich in 1972 was the target of the terrorist attack in which eleven died, was under particularly tight control. Said James Gilkes, a U.S.-educated sprinter from Guyana: "I'm in the right wing of Building 13, but I can't even go into the left wing. If I want to see someone who's in another building...
Injuries had been expected to run as high as 1%, but the rate was less than half of that, only eleven in all; the most serious was a shoulder separation. All but 5% of the force landed on target and began moving...
...campaign. A certain militant element of the G.O.P. right wing still seems determined to assert its strength even if it hurts the party and the party's new leader. It was an indication that for some true believers, ideology is still more important than winning an election. Their special target was the Equal Rights Amendment. Reagan aides had already watered down the party's traditional support of ERA, which runs through most conventions back to 1940.* But that was not good enough for the right-wingers. By an overwhelming 90 to 9, they pushed through a platform plank saying that...
...panel discussion at the league's annual conference, then getting under way in New York City. But instead of clashing with Schuller's views, the four panelists frequently harmonized as closely as a barbershop quartet. "Several of his observations about labor-management relations are right on target," said Donald Engle, former manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Added Irma Lazarus, a member of the Cincinnati Symphony board: "I was moved by Schuller's article. There's an enormous amount of truth...
...very choice of a shopping mall as the target of their heist attempt makes an air-conditioned, claustrophobic comment about the American middle-class. Never mind that if these women sold off even half their wardrobes, they could drive gas-guzzling American cars for years--the cost of living is not only expensive, it is high. And part of that high cost is the material drain of today's values. Curtin, Lange and St. James each play women who would have no trouble voting for Ronald Reagan in November if there were to be a sequel called...