Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade ago, Arthur Jensen discovered that fact the hard way. Jensen, then a little-known professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, created a furor and became a target of abuse by publishing an article in the Harvard Educational Review. Its claim: based on IQ tests, whites may be naturally smarter than blacks. Now, battered but unbowed, Jensen, 56, is returning to the fray. In a book to be published in December, he concludes that the IQ tests showing blacks scoring lower than whites are fair, accurate and not-as critics suppose-skewed by culture...
...goal of the church is to unite all people," Barry told Gloucester in 1977. A main target of the church would be youths who "are involved with sexual promiscuity and drugs," he said...
Even when Harvard is on its best behavior, though, people tend naturally to point to it as the cause of any trouble, Brewer says. "Harvard is a sitting target, the biggest boy on the block," he said...
Chicago police, sometimes to their chagrin, also find themselves under scrutiny. Following the revelation that the cops were spying on political activists, the commission persuaded the late Mayor Richard Daley to establish a citizens police review committee made up of appointees whom they recommended. Even government corruption is a target of the more aggressive commissions, like those in Chicago, Kansas City, and New Orleans. Says Frank Maudlin, an ex-highway patrolman who heads the Kansas City commission: "Organized crime runs hand in hand with the corruption of officials...
...York City was poorer until last spring when a group of business leaders formed a commission that aims for an annual budget of $500,000 and a professional staff of about ten. The group's first target is violent street crime, which has hurt the city's economy by scaring off business. The new group hopes to help New York in coordinating its disparate criminal justice agencies. City officials are taking a wait-and-see attitude for now, but with 1,550 murders, 3,500 rapes, 76,000 robberies, and 161,000 burglaries annually, not to mention unreported...