Word: target
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the further expansion of minority set-asides. A Defense authorization act, which took effect this month, calls upon the Pentagon to strive toward awarding 5% of all contracts, as much as $7 billion a year, to minority-owned small businesses. A laudable goal but also, alas, another tempting target for corruption...
...government already has them. "We've run a miserable campaign," conceded a prime-ministerial colleague. One factor was the heavy security for the Prime Minister, the target of recent threats by the Irish Republican Army. She has been surrounded by plainclothes police in bulletproof vests, and her schedule has been kept secret until the last moment...
...sign of the change is that Volcker went along with a gradual reorientation of Fed policy toward pepping up economic growth. In 1986 the Reserve Board let the basic money supply grow at a 16% annual pace, far above Volcker's original target limit of 8%. That money spurt, along with the weakening dollar, has let inflation edge up this year and may have sown the seeds of future rises that could nullify part of Volcker's celebrated victory against spiraling prices...
However, the increased visibility which the Cambridge resident brought to the office made him a prime target for attacks from the Right. The leader of the House from 1976-86, O'Neill was often depicted following the economically troubled 1970's as representative of the Democratic Party: bloated, big spending, and too liberal...
Significantly, Bok has attempted to maintain a consensus throughout. On the natty issue of South Africa, Bok has steered a middle course on the University's stock holdings, a target of harsh attacks since the late 1970's. His policy of "selective divestment" and the creation of an Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) composed of students and faculty have mollified some critics...