Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane stalled and plunged to the ground in rural Jenkinsburg, Ga. The plane's wing tanks were spiked with sugar, indicating sabotage. Thornton and Williams knew each other, and authorities speculate that they skimmed a cocaine shipment from Colombian drug suppliers. After Thornton's death, Williams became a target for revenge. His fellow sky divers, according to this theory, were just innocent bystanders...
Santiago was also White's favorite aerial target, hauling in six passes for 63 yards...
...resumed in earnest about eight years ago. Though he finds painting "more serene" than acting, and has more than 100 oil landscapes and portraits to his credit, Hackman has neither the desire nor the time to mount a gallery show. He has completed three about-to-be-released films, Target, Twice in a Lifetime and Power, and will soon begin Hoosiers, about high school basketball in Indiana. With all that performing, Hackman prefers to keep his painterly pursuits private. Says he: "Maybe I'm afraid that if I start to exhibit, it'll become too much like work...
...accused agent was identified as Edward Lee Howard, 33, who worked for the CIA as recently as June 1983, evidently in the agency's clandestine service. As if that were not damaging enough, officials also disclosed that Howard suddenly vanished two weeks ago, after learning that he was the target of an FBI surveillance operation. The feds, said one U.S. official wearily, "muffed...
This method has scored some dazzling successes over the years. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for example, used it to trace prints from a box of pizza to a professional hit man who had gunned down a target while posing as a delivery boy. But some police complain that their computers are too slow and too undependable for routine police work. A typical computer search of the files can take more than six seconds per fingerprint and often overlooks prints that are even slightly smudged...