Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silent for a moment as he surveys the Turkish carpet of prairie juniper, sage, buckbrush and wheatgrass that blankets his 3,700- acre ranch in Big Sky country. "It's funny," he says at last, "but you never know where lightning will strike. You're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall...
...York City's Cardinal O'Connor is a favorite target of AIDS and abortion- rights protesters. He is among the most outspoken of Catholic bishops in condemning homosexuality and opposing the use of condoms to prevent AIDS. He has also supported the obstructionist tactics of such antiabortion groups as Operation Rescue that block abortion clinics and harass their clients. "It's quite ironic that Cardinal O'Connor is so angry over this act of civil disobedience, when he has espoused a form of it himself," said Ellen Carton, executive director of the New York State branch of the National Abortion...
...demonstrations are designed to shock. "We expect tempers to run high," says Jay Blotcher, an ACT UP spokesman. "We target Roman Catholicism because no other religion so energetically tries to influence public policy." Outside four Catholic churches in Los Angeles last week, ACT UP protesters offered free condoms and safe-sex pamphlets to parishioners. Members of the group have occupied drug-company offices to demand lower prices for AIDS medicines, chained themselves to a banister at the New York Stock Exchange, and staged same-sex "kiss-ins" at last year's Democratic and Republican national conventions...
Trying to deliver 160 billion pieces of mail may be driving the carrier crazy. Bush's fence-mending mission to China unleashes a storm of criticism. -- AIDS protesters target the Roman Catholic Church...
Ames is a tough target for environmentalists because he devised the test that is used to determine whether chemicals are carcinogenic. Nonetheless, Janet Hathaway of the Natural Resources Defense Council argues that talk about natural carcinogens deflects attention from industry's responsibility for environmental risks. Ames, she says, exaggerates levels of natural toxins and understates the exposure to and effect of synthetic chemicals...