Word: targets
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...without a credible running game, the Bulldog offense was helpless as the Penn linebackers and secondary sat back in deep coverage and batted away most of the on-target passes...
Unlike most other campus political groups, the Committee on Central America (COCA) does not protest Harvard policies. Its target is the federal government...
...Francisco-based company sponsored the poll in order to get a feel for the wants and needs of college students, one of its main target groups, said spokesman Dean C. Christon...
Nonetheless, with one bold, nonviolent stroke, the U.S. had erased four days of frustration, horror and humiliation, an all-too-familiar progression in the recent history of international terrorism. Once again Arab extremists had struck at a vulnerable civilian target. A few hours after it left Alexandria on a pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean, an Italian liner, the Achille Lauro, with 123 passengers and 315 crew aboard, was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen. Once again American passengers were singled out for especially brutal attention. One of them, Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York City, a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair...
That theory received indirect support on the day of the EgyptAir interception. A P.L.F. statement delivered in Cyprus accepted responsibility for the hijacking, apologized, and admitted that Ashdod was the original terrorist target. Said the statement: "The aim of the operation was not to hijack the ship or its passengers or any civilian of any nationality...