Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday night Harvard began to find its game. The offense clicked as the outside shooters fired on target. Junior point-guard Heidi Kosh led all scorers with 20 points, and Co-Captains Sarah Duncan and Beth Chandler netted 19 and 18 points, respectively...
Probably the most vocal calls for harsher measures come from the Jewish settlers in the territories, who have increasingly become the main target of Palestinian stones. For months the 70,000 settlers, who claim the West Bank as their biblical right, have complained that the army is failing to protect them. When Shamir started to speak at a memorial service this month for two Israeli victims of the intifadeh, mourners yelled, "You are doing nothing!" Nor did the new battle order satisfy the settlers, who have demanded such extreme reprisals as shooting all stone throwers on sight. "For them...
...target of all this firepower was Pierre Berge, 58, the autocratic president of the $400 million-a-year Yves Saint Laurent fashion empire and the designer's companion of 30 years. Some said Berge's chief qualification to be head of the governing Association of Theaters of the Paris Opera was that he had contributed handsomely to Mitterrand's re-election campaign last year...
...Some say the Fed adopted monetarism and decided to target control of the nation's money supply in order to keep hands off interest rates and duck the inevitable political criticism as rates rose...
...jobs and promotions, has made remedies for past inequities less appealing. At Berkeley, 22% of the students in last year's entering class fell into "protected" categories, including Native Americans, Hispanics and blacks. Asian Americans, who make up 26.5% of Berkeley's undergraduate population, are an especially | tempting target for abuse because of their high academic performance. "People say they're too motivated," explains a student. "Especially in the sciences, whites are insecure." Such fears may even have tainted the admissions process: last fall the Department of Education launched an inquiry to determine whether Harvard and UCLA had set illegal...