Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days. "It's the Matt Dillon syndrome," says Jack Wright Jr., a criminologist at Loyola University in New Orleans. "People believe the police can't protect them." They are buying guard dogs and supplies of Mace. Locksmiths and burglar-alarm businesses are flourishing, as are classes in karate and target shooting. Banks have long waiting lists for vacated safety-deposit boxes. Many city sidewalks are a muggers' mecca at night; the elderly dread walking anywhere, even in broadest daylight. The fear of street crime is changing the way America lives...
...would anyone reawaken the anti-Semitism issue in a country where there are now so few Jews to attack? In fact there was an overwhelming suspicion that the rally organizers had another target in mind. Coming only days after the temporary detention of Dissident Leader Jacek Kuron and other incidents of harassment against Solidarity, the rally seemed to many to be an attempt to discredit the independent trade union with an emotional "Zionist" label...
...target of the multifaceted protest last week was an 82-page document Howe had extracted from its battered red case: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's severely austere new budget, which she insisted "laid a solid foundation for sustained revival of the British economy." Ignoring urgent pleas for relief from both industry and trade unions, Thatcher asked Britons to swallow yet another dose of her bitter, monetarist medicine. "This government," she insisted, "has taken the wise and moral course, and I will challenge anyone who takes the contrary view." The new budget will raise government revenue by $7.7 billion...
With a 12-place finish in the 400-meters and a 14th in the 1500 meters, the Delaware native attracted the attention of college coaches and that fall found himself a prime recruiting target for the major swimming schools...
...pandemic from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego. Bribing in Mexico is handled with the stylized flair of a Latin seduction, beginning with dinner at an expensive restaurant like La Hacienda de los Morales, and climaxing with a weekend jet-jaunt to Punta Cancun or Acapulco. The target of such lavish hospitality is most often the head of purchasing in one of the Mexican government's state ministries, who oversees procurement and importing...