Word: targetting
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...covert operation aimed at influencing the 1996 elections. Other intercepts indicated that front companies for the Chinese government might try to funnel cash. A few months later the NSA took its information to the FBI, which began a probe. Of the six U.S. lawmakers who emerged as major targets, four were from California, where the business community began courting the Chinese soon after Richard Nixon renewed ties in 1972. Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are longtime supporters of China's MFN status. (Feinstein's husband has extensive business interests there.) Representative Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, is a leading...
...conservation," he said. Nonsense, countered Montana Governor Marc Racicot, who last week termed Babbit's utterances on buffalo "rhetorical posturing." Montana is already plagued by a booming Yellowstone bison herd that should be reduced to no more than 2,000 heads, he said. But Interior Department statistics suggest that target has already been met. The herd, which numbered 3,500 last October, is now down to around 1,500 heads thanks to a combination of shootings and severe winter weather. Even if Montana officials succeed in eliminating all buffalo that wander into neighboring federal forest ranges in search of food...
Hale was barraged with reporters' queries, and in an effort to calm the waters, he investigated Shramek's photograph and determined that the "object" in it was an ordinary eighth-magnitude star. After posting his conclusions on the Net, Hale became the target of a flood of hate E-mail, much of it accusing him of being part of a conspiracy to suppress the true nature of Hale-Bopp...
Although he made a bigger bang than any other nuclear whistle blower, Galatis feels more like a victim than a hero. He behaved honorably, and the industry responded by killing his career. "After the TIME article appeared, I became a target," he says. "People hated me. I'd walk into the cafeteria at Millstone and sit down at a table, and everyone else would get up and leave. I felt marked, shunned, fearful." He got anonymous phone calls and installed a caller-ID system, which traced them back to Millstone. At night in his car he was sure people were...
...conservation," he said. Nonsense, countered Montana Governor Marc Racicot, who last week termed Babbit's utterances on buffalo "rhetorical posturing." Montana is already plagued by a booming Yellowstone bison herd that should be reduced to no more than 2,000 heads, he said. But Interior Department statistics suggest that target has already been met. The herd, which numbered 3,500 last October, is now down to around 1,500 heads thanks to a combination of shootings and severe winter weather. Even if Montana officials succeed in eliminating all buffalo that wander into neighboring federal forest ranges in search of food...