Word: targeting
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Precisely because of its influence, the RSV is now a target of Protestant feminists and other critics who want to purge it of the male chauvinism that they find running all through its pages. Says the Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, a United Methodist mission official: "People are becoming increasingly sensitive to language that renders half the human race invisible." As it happens, such sentiment is strong in the National Council of Churches (N.C.C.), whose education division is overseeing the RSV revision. But the N.C.C.'s leaders have hesitated to alter the RSV radically, partly because the organization gets...
Unlike rockets, missiles launched by railguns would not leave fiery, polluting exhausts detectable by satellite. In a forthcoming issue, Physics Today reports that some scientists think that railguns, firing a stream of high-velocity particles at a target of deuterium and tritium, may offer the best way yet of achieving controlled fusion, a key energy hope for the future. Perhaps the most far-reaching application involves the space colonization ideas of Princeton Physicist Gerard O'Neill. He and some colleagues at M.I.T. are already building models of kindred electromagnetic launchers that they believe could be assembled on the moon...
...balance. In recent months, Volcker has come under attack from the left and the right. While liberals accuse him of being too zealous in his struggle to hold the growth of money to below 6½% during 1980, conservatives have rapped Volcker for consistently failing to hit his target...
...alike have begun to suffer. After a strong takeoff in new-car sales that buoyed U.S. automakers, business for the industry's 1981 model line has sagged to an annual sales rate of 6.6 million units, which itself would be 900,000 short of Detroit's 1981 target...
...Hidden Target, MacInnes...