Word: targets
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...plaintiffs so often persist, and why do juries find for them in cases that judges then throw out? Perhaps because jurors, like much of the rest of the public, think the press needs some restraining. Or perhaps because libel law is simply hard for laymen to grasp. While the target of a tough story may feel that he is the beleaguered party, in libel law he becomes the plaintiff and takes on the legal burden of disproving the offending story. In the conflict of rights between freedom of the press and preservation of reputation, the legal scales are deliberately tipped...
...Security Council? If Pell really wants the Security Council to protect the gulf, what he means is for the U.S., Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union to act together. But this is absurd. China, for example, is supplying Iran with the very missiles it would use to target any peacekeeping flotilla. And even if united action were possible, it would not be desirable. What the "U.N. route" really means, after all the disguises are removed, is that the U.S. should act in the gulf only with the permission not just of allies but also of the Soviet Union. This...
...plan as a new takeover defense. Under its provisions, the company would take on more than $3 billion in additional debt and then give stockholders a $60 cash payment for every share they owned. Company officials apparently believed the huge new debt would make Allegis a less attractive takeover target and that the cash payout would placate Coniston and other restive shareholders. They were wrong. The pilots still talked takeover, and Coniston pressed forward with its proposal to break up the company, maintaining that Allegis stock, then hovering in the 80s, remained undervalued...
...latest target in the drive against Western ideas, Liu has become the subject of a write-in series in the conservative Peking Daily. Qu Xiao, an educator recently acclaimed as a "model" Communist, submitted his interpretation last week: "Liu's outlook was based on self-centeredness, self-design, self-struggle and self-importance. All these lead to self- destruction...
Minutes before midnight, men posted on both sides of a street in suburban Manila opened fire on a passing car, killing two people and wounding Bernardo Buscayno, 43, the probable target of the ambush. Attacks by urban guerrillas of the left and right are not unusual in Manila, but this time the public furor was enormous...