Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Legal Services. A pet ideological target of the Administration, legal aid for the poor was disbarred completely...
...hunger strikers in the H-block has been costly, especially in the U.S. Since the death of Hunger Striker Bobby Sands in May, direct and indirect contributions to the I.R.A. from Irish-Americans have reportedly tripled. During a visit to New York last month, Prince Charles was the target of loud anti-British demonstrations. Last week Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret-who caused a furor in a 1979 visit to the U.S. when she was reported to have called the Irish "pigs"-was persuaded by Thatcher to cancel a proposed trip to Washington scheduled for next week...
Television is the most widely shared experience in this diffuse country. That alone would make it a natural target for zealots of the New Right, intent on proving their political muscle. TV, moreover, is omnipresent in home and family life, and Christian conservatives see the family as endangered. They contend that TV reflects-indeed, often promotes-the gratuitous sex, profanity and violence of contemporary society, thus bringing moral decay into the home...
Last week it was suddenly the other way around. The nation's ninth largest oil company, Conoco Inc. of Stamford, Conn. (1980 sales: $18.8 billion), became the reluctant target, rather than the proud suitor, in a corporate takeover raid. The predator was none other than Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, U.S. subsidiary of Canadian-based Seagram Co. Ltd., the world's largest liquor distiller, with 1980 global revenues of $2.5 billion...
...target with its main point, however. While not opposing President Ronald Reagan's plan for a $1.3 trillion military buildup over the next five years, it emphasized that money alone will not ensure a strong defense, and called for a national debate on just what the dollars should be used to buy. The Pentagon huffed that "the series turned out to be an editorial rather than a documentary." Even so, Pentagon Spokesman Henry Catto Jr. applauded CBS "for its seriousness of purpose...