Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...function is to serve as what biologists call an apex predator, the ocean equivalent of a lion or tiger or bear. Not only do they keep prey populations in check, but they also tend to eat the slowest, weakest and least wily individuals. In so doing, they improve the target species' gene pool, leaving the smarter, stronger individuals to reproduce...
...federal agents seized documents from 31 Columbia locations in six states (Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Utah). By last week, agencies ranging from the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service to the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services had obtained more than 35 warrants that target the company...
According to James Michel, the managed health care system was "an easy target" because it already contains elements of the absurd...
...Speaker did have time, however, to plot his revenge--and he settled on DeLay as his next target. Privately, Gingrich told associates that he wanted to remove the whip and replace him with DeLay's chief deputy, Illinois moderate Denny Hastert. Late last week Gingrich supporters began circulating a petition calling for an emergency meeting of the House G.O.P. conference this Tuesday. At least, DeLay and the others would have to explain themselves in front of all 228 Republican members. At most, DeLay could lose his post in a vote of no confidence--the very fate the rebels considered...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Instituted in 1986, the 100-to-1 disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentencing was meant to target crime, not color. But with crack-related violence on the wane, President Clinton agreed Tuesday to ease off on a policy many activists call racist because it imposes far heavier penalties on crack users, who are more likely to be black. Under the plan put forth by Attorney General Janet Reno and drug czar Barry McCaffrey, the disparity will be reduced to 10-to-1: five years would be the mandatory sentence for selling 25 grams of crack...