Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They cluster on every surface, from the restaurant table to the living-room sofa. They abound in lakes and in pools, flourish in the soil and disport themselves among the flora and fauna. This menagerie of microscopic organisms, most of them potentially harmful or even lethal, has a favorite target: the human body. In fact, the tantalizing human prey is a walking repository of just the kind of stuff the tiny predators need to survive, thrive and reproduce...
Reagan said he had "complete confidence" in Meese, whose Justice Department has been rocked by unrest and resignations and who is the target of criminal investigations of his affairs...
Father Tadeusz Zaleski, a pro-Solidarity priest who was at the strike- committee headquarters in the rolling-mill building, the first target of the attackers, described the assault: "They kept shooting off these blinding flash and deafening percussion grenades. People lost their bearings and began fleeing in panic. They were chased all over the hall and beaten with truncheons." Most of the 18 members of the strike committee were taken into custody. Then a force of at least 2,000 riot police swept through the rest of the mill, rounding up strikers and forcing them to kneel or lie down...
Most U.S. trading partners were relieved that the Senate did not appear to have enough votes to override a veto. In Japan, the most prominent target of the legislation, officials were delighted. Said Hajime Tamura, chief of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry: "We would like to note our appreciation that more than one-third of the Senate voted against the bill...
...wide scope of the Harvard Institute makes it different than centers sponsored by other universities about the disease--which usually target either research for a cure, or responses to the social costs of the epidemic...