Word: buckshotting
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When the College Entrance Examination Board introduced its computerized Student Search Service in 1971-72, about 120 schools purchased 6 million names for recruitment mailings. Last year, 880 schools purchased 22.5 million names. Some schools favor a buckshot approach. At the University of Miami, for example, where two-thirds of undergraduates come from out of state, recruiters have sent as many as 265,000 brochures at a single mailing. Most schools prefer mailings of 12,000 or so. Computers allow colleges to select student names for promotional mailings by zip code, ethnic group and family income-as well as class...
...speech at the Beth Israel Hospital, for example. Nader used "the doctor's role in medicine" as an umbrella topic to take pot shots at the automotive industry, the highway industry, the drug companies, nuclear power and the makers of Wonder Bread. He sprays out facts and accusations like buckshot, aiming at everything and being reasonably sure he will hit something...
...Anderson peppered his campaign with a buckshot array of intelligent, unorthodox attacks on specific problems, he nevertheless failed to project the vision that would give wings to a political movement capable of upsetting the two-party system. He might well complain that his 317-page platform was barely read, much less reported. Still the longtime political conservative, who had moderated his views enough to be endorsed by New York's Liberal Party and the New Republic, gambled mainly on riding a wave of anti-Carter and anti-Reagan sentiment. That, clearly, was not enough...
...domestication to hunt, drink and rough it, a combination of Boy Scoutery and male blood rite. In New Jersey, for a brief period, deer hunting also became a form of semi-legalized mayhem as unqualified hunters, often as loaded as the weapons they carried, took to the woods with buckshot, and, along with their deer, managed to kill a fair number of cows-and fellow sportsmen...
...residents in Soweto formed their own vigilante groups to protect themselves. Police, at first delighted by the Zulu backlash, were belatedly ordered to move in and separate the black combatants. Police admitted killing 14 of the week's victims and wounding dozens of the others with small-size buckshot-a tactic ordered by Justice Minister Kruger to keep the death toll down...