Despite the fact that the Soviet nuclear program was one of the most intensely targeted in history, the CIA was never able to find evidence of centrifuge use.
The winner was a great tweet by Sean Carman (@seancarman, who happens to be the brother of earlier great tweeter Taylor Carman), which not only went after one of the biggest targets in literary history but was self-aware on two fronts: "Captain Ahab is beginning to think the whale might be some kind of metaphor".
Though 140 was the second-lowest semi-final victory target in the history of the tournament, Pakistan were choked by Sri Lankan spin duo Herath and Ajantha Mendis, who were complemented by seamers serving up a diet consisting almost entirely of slower balls.
Magdalena Forsberg of Sweden, the most successful female biathlete in history, missed two targets on her final shooting round but won the bronze medal in the 15-kilometer biathlon.
The $100 billion in spending reductions for the 2011 fiscal year, proposed last week by Republicans as what they called the "largest spending cuts in history," provide a target-rich environment.
By the end of the year, research by Oxford University suggested that it had become the fastest growing divestment campaign in history, surpassing those targeting the tobacco industry and apatheid in South Africa.
After ramming through one of the most unfair tax cuts in history, one that targeted most of its benefits to the most wealthy taxpayers, the party is focusing on a new reduction that would lavish 80percentt of its benefit on the wealthiest 2percentt of taxpayers.
BLOOMBERG NEWS Fears Mountnt at Energy Future Holdings | Investorsrs fear that Energy Future Holdings, a Texas energy giant that was the target of the biggest leveraged buyout in history, will experience a revenue drop in 2014 when hedges intended to protect against changes in natural gas prices expire, The Financial Times reports.
But in this case the missing object was the target of perhaps the most expensive manhunt in history.
