Word: targeted
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...While he's been the target of occasional criticism for failing to bludgeon candidates with tricky questions and gotcha set-ups, his even-keeled approach has sustained Lehrer's enduring broadcasting career. The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (and its previous incarnations) has been a staple on PBS since 1975. "Objectivity is almost impossible. Fairness is never impossible," Lehrer said in a speech at Brown University. "And all that people have a right to expect is that they will be treated fairly." It may sound like hairsplitting, but this belief - that in their work, journalists must actively conquer their...
...regrets, describing his Hong Kong move as "growth" and "going forward." Hopefully the chance to win fresh converts, target new Chinese-speaking markets and play a formative role in an Asian rap scene that yearns for someone of his experience will keep him content for a long time to come. "I might not have been the guy who sold a million records," he says, "but you can't accuse me of not properly representing hip-hop and Asian culture...
...University President Drew G. Faust announced yesterday. The event will formally launch a greenhouse gas reduction initiative—first announced in June—which aims to reduce Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2008 levels by 2016. The target came as the chief recommendation in the report of the oft-touted Greenhouse Gas Task Force, which Faust convened last winter. Gore grabbed the national spotlight with his Oscar award-winning documentary on global warming—An Inconvenient Truth—and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts...
...during one of her brief periods of freedom, Aung San Suu Kyi, in a syndicated newspaper column, wrote that Win Tin's "undoubted ability and his strength made [him] a prime target of those who opposed the democratic cause and in 1989 he became one of the first leaders of the NLD to be arrested. The charge against him involved an unproven telephone conversation with the father of an individual who had been declared a fugitive from the law. Telephone conversations are, in any case, inadmissible as evidence under Burmese law, but the law offers scant protection for those...
...saying after the game. Principle 3: Get Down, Get Shakin’, and Get Bakin’. Inspired, I ran out onto the field as the Crimson finished the third overtime on top. I somehow, someway, was the first to hit the ground running. I was also the first target. A Yale policeman with a big butt came on a beeline right for me. But you know what? I was so freaking ready. Quick jab to the right, spin move out of his grasp, and I was in open field. I sprinted as fast as I could, got between...