Word: target
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began last June when Republicans, stung by the improprieties of Mike Deaver and Ed Meese, set out to make sleaze a bipartisan issue. As the highest-ranking Democrat, Wright, whose slicked-back hair, caterpillar eyebrows and leering grin give him the look of a wheeler-dealer, was a good target. After revelations of an unusual deal in which a Texas publisher paid Wright 55% royalties -- three or four times the usual rate -- for a collection of the Speaker's speeches and anecdotes, Common Cause and 72 Republicans asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate...
...salvation against the independent P.L.O. kingdom of terror that caused thousands of casualties, dead and wounded. We never made civilian populations our target. There were tragic events, and people were killed. We regretted that very much. But we never targeted civilian populations. The target of the P.L.O. terrorist organization in all those years before we put a stop to it was our civilian population, because its goal is to eliminate the Jews and the state of Israel...
...would be ! well rewarded for its role in a secret U.S. plan to keep the Nicaraguan rebels supplied. -- Hugh Sidey on the incredible shrinking presidency. -- Racial bloc voting prevails in Chicago's mayoral election, but in Virginia the pattern may be broken. -- The strange exile of a terrorist target...
Stoltzfus said the vigil was "not an attempt to alienate the church administration because they are not the ones we want to target...
...example, 17 Quincy St. is no longer the home of Harvard's presidents--its location makes it a prime, easily accessible target for student sympathetic to student demands and believedthat the University should become more"democratic" and the other representing those whowere more interested in maintaining the statusquo...