Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applies this same distinction to biblical texts on slaves, Jews, women and homosexuals, explaining why each group?s persecution or exclusion, even if derived literally from Holy Writ, runs counter to its principles. "Fundamentalists will have little use for this book," says TIME's David Van Biema, "but its target audience just may be charmed back into the pews...
...shooting death, agreeing with the defense's argument that a recorded conversation allegedly identifying Francesco Mesiano and Michele Iannello as the murderers was too chock full of regional dialect to serve as intelligible evidence. Police charged that the pair had mistaken the Greens' rental car for a robbery target, forced the car off the road and then fired into the vehicle, hitting young Nicholas in the brain. In the end, despite evidence linking Iannello to the car and the gun used in the shooting, even the prosecution favored leniency for the pair, citing the youth of 23-year-old Mesiano...
...year was 1981, and Ho was chief medical resident at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Across town at UCLA, Gottlieb had identified a new syndrome that seemed to target gay men. Each of the cases was different, but all had one thing in common: whatever was making the men sick had singled out the T cells for destruction. Eventually the body's battered defenses couldn't shake off even the most innocuous microbial intruder. The men were dying from what doctors termed opportunistic infections, such as Pneumocystis pneumonia, which attacks the lungs, and toxoplasmosis, which often ravages the brain...
...Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. The black experience in America as interpreted by the tapping, stomping feet of Savion Glover and company. The sketches--on how hard it is to hail a cab in Manhattan, or be a black dancing star in 1930s Hollywood--are satirically on target, and the dancers perform with demon drive. What a year for musicals...
...Cross representative Kim Gordon-Bates. "Nothing was stolen." Although Russian Interior Ministry troops have begun an investigation, there is no guarantee they will find the killers, who could be rogue field commanders from either side or bandits. The question is, even in Chechnya's chaotic environment, why would anyone target relief workers? Ruslan Kutayev, minister of the Russian-backed Chechen government, called the attack an intentional and planned provocation aimed at derailing elections scheduled for January 27th. "The shooting comes on the heels of a hostage taking incident over the weekend on the Chechen Daghestan border, when 22 Russian Interior...