Word: targets
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...lords to intimidate and corrupt the region's governments (see following story). The general is believed to be closely tied to a cocaine trade that begins in the jungles of South America and ends in U.S. neighborhoods from Boston to Beverly Hills. That has helped make Noriega a prime target for U.S. law-enforcement officials and diplomats, who want the general brought to justice and a democratic government in Panama. The U.S. halted economic and military aid to Panama last June, and has for months sought ways to force Noriega from power...
JERUSALEM--The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) claimed responsibility for a car packed with explosives that was found yesterday near a hotel where Secretary of State George P. Shultz was staying. The guerrilla group said Shultz was the target...
...surface, the Reagan 1989 budget is an impressive effort. It sets a deficit target of $129.5 billion, less than the $146.7 billion gap expected for 1988 and far lower than the $176 billion shortfall projected for 1989 if Congress and the White House do not follow through on the agreement to raise revenues and cut spending. The amount of deficit reduction Reagan plans for 1989 is probably just right. Anything more might throw the economy into a recession...
...goal was to wipe out the deficit by 1992 -- a year ahead of the target in the latest version of the Gramm-Rudman law. The case for balancing the budget sooner rather than later is simple: the longer it takes, the more difficult it becomes, and the more costly the delay. During his terms, Reagan has amassed a higher deficit total ($1.25 trillion) than all previous Presidents combined. In the process, he and Congress have more than doubled the national debt, to $2.36 trillion. Meanwhile, interest on the debt has snowballed, threatening to bury the financial fortunes of generations...
Bloom obviously is on target with much of his criticism. At the very least, he certainly has struck a resonant chord among "the many" who have purchased his book. Yet his tenuous relationship with democracy is perhaps best captured in his failure to understand the importance of the democratizing role played by universities, especially the Ivies, in postwar American society...