Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Republican hard-liners have been sniping at the appointments of a number of experienced middle-of-the-roaders, particularly ones with Kissinger connections, such as Baker's chosen deputy, Lawrence Eagleburger. Another target of opposition has been Lord, whom Eagleburger wanted to be Assistant Secretary for East Asia. And as a sop to the right, a former Helms protege, ( Richard McCormack, got the job of Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, instead of almost everyone's first choice, Robert Hormats, a highly regarded international trade specialist...
Fears that higher education faces budgets cuts are justified. Paleologos said. "It's a difficult target to resist for people who have the knives out," he said...
...hoped that the Bush education budget might target additional funding for such vitally important programs as student assistance," Pell added...
...nearly $5.5 billion to combat the nation's drug crisis--almost $1 billion more than was spent this year--and he has agreed to fully fund programs for aid to the homeless as legislated by Congress. In an effort to improve America's economic "competitiveness," the plan would also target more research money to the National Science Foundation and make permanent the investment tax credit...
...stream of well-chewed Red Man tobacco -- a replacement for his three-pack- a-day cigarette habit -- arcs expertly toward a barely visible target about four feet away. "Right there," he says. "Bull's-eye." It is the last day of 1988. In three weeks James Addison Baker III will become America's next Secretary of State...