Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radio listeners who think all disk jockeys ought to be in jail. But in Angola, La., two DJs have started their careers behind bars. Big Brother Amin and the Duke of L.A., who broadcast five days a week from Station KLSP, are both armed-robbery convicts. Their target audience is also captive: the 4,645 inmates of Angola's 18,000-acre prison farm. The call letters for KLSP stand for Louisiana State Penitentiary, the "incarceration station" that is the only prisoner-run radio...
...Mike Barnes, D-Md., the target of the most hard-hitting of Channell's commercials last spring, said Sunday he would formally request on Monday a congressional probe of allegations that money diverted from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran was funnelled into such conservative groups...
...good thing that can be said of staid morality, however, is that it is the perfect target for parody--a fact that did not escape the wittier Victorians. Some of the brightest comedy ever written--for example, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest--was forged during this era of moral gloom...
...Crimson has never been behind in a game. Some of its games have taken on the look of glorified target practice. A crowd shows up and the Harvard forwards pound away at a defenseless guy in pads standing in front of the net. Meanwhile, the Harvard goalies barely lift a glove or move a stick...
Despite the amount of data we receive, though, the ultimate effectiveness of it is determined by the men who must decide whether the Russian words "the target is destroyed" refer to a downed jetliner or are part of a routine drill. And even when the correct decision is made at this level, its accurate interpretation by the political leaders is far from certain...