Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic retaliation against the Soviet Union for its role in the Polish crisis is raising anew some time-worn questions. Do such sanctions work? Are they at best only symbolic? Are they perhaps misguided missiles that ultimately inflict more damage on the country imposing them than on the target nation...
...become the warfare of first resort. The U.S. and such international bodies as the League of Nations and the United Nations have employed embargoes to punish Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain and many other countries. In almost every case these tac tics failed dismally because the target nations found new trading partners or willing smugglers to get around the restrictions. Concludes John Letiche, professor of international economics at the University of California at Berkeley: "The history of trade embargoes is a history of evasion...
...BECOME FASHIONABLE to make fun of Andy Rooney. It was only a matter of time, really, before the Saturday Night Lives and Second City Televisions started honing in on him. That carefully cluttered desk and contrived homespun drawl make him an almost irresistably easy target for parody. And the subjects he covers on his weekly blurb at the end of the CBS news show "60 Minutes" range from the obvious and dull to the obtuse and dull. People who think Andy Rooney is really funny are the kind of people who read Erma Bombeck, people who subscribe to Good Housekeeping...
...other. Certainly he is more comfortable in this second volume. He is still, as always, petulant, self-indulgent, and pompous, and since Nabokov insists upon his own status in the Pantheon of literature--which was not so obvious when he was writing these lectures--he has made a conspicuous target of himself...
SCTV (NBC). The funniest nights on television, with TV itself the target of repeated maulings by a company of six comic assassins. Their "Sammy Maudlin Show," an excursion into late-night chat and sleaze, has a kind of purgatorial hilarity, like a Friars' roast written by Sartre...