Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result of a nip and tuck? Having taken an international beating for failing to apprehend Carrillo over the years, the Mexican government was initially reluctant to declare the baron dead. But by early last week, officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which considered Carrillo its No. 1 target, confirmed that the corpse's fingerprints matched those known to have come from the fabled criminal. Mexican physicians then conducted tests that matched DNA taken from the body to genetic material from Carrillo's mother and three sisters. The exact cause of Carrillo's death is still unclear (thought...
...immediate danger of being arrested--a planned U.S.-Mexican task force aimed at capturing him never materialized, largely because of ongoing corruption in the ranks of Mexican drug busters. But Carrillo had gained a level of celebrity in the past few years that made him a target for those on both sides...
...references to GOP abuses in newspaper and magazine articles. It's their own Web version of "I know you are but what am I?" While the page is of course partisan, the Dems do have a point. Only 24 of the 183 subpoenas issued by the Thompson committee target Democrats. The inquiry entirely misses one of the most prominent targets, Haley Barbour, the former chief of the Republican Party who's been accused of wrongdoing, since Thompson has limited his inquiry to the 1996 campaign...
...Whether the craft survived the impact intact was not immediately known, but NASA received radio signals from the Martian surface that suggested that it landed in the best position, with its base petal on the ground. Scientists were also happy that the lander came within 12 miles of the target point and was healthy, with all electronic subsystems running. If all continues to go well, the 22-pound, six-wheeled Sojourner rover will begin creeping across the dusty Ares Vallis plain late tonight...
...credit, across-the-board reductions in capital gains and estate taxes and a $10,000 deduction for education expenses paid through special investment accounts. The Senate bill would broaden the $500 per child tax credit to low-income families and use income-indexed reductions in capital gains to target small businesses and middle-class families. The bill would also boost cigarette taxes by 20 cents per pack...