Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Advocate has been a target of repeated larceny in recent weeks--the president's chair, a wooden seat with the Advocate seal carved into it, was stolen about two weeks ago, Aiyar said...
...second time in 10 days, a man in a white surgical mask terrified Japan. This time the target of the mysterious assailant was carefully picked: Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the country's 220,000-strong police force and the man in charge of investigating the deadly poison-gas attack in Tokyo's subway...
...Japanese police pressed their investigation of the March 20 nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway, an assassination attempt was made on the head of the National Police Agency. The focus of the probe, as well as the target of rising public suspicion, remained the Aum Shinrikyo cult. A raid on the group's holiest shrine revealed a hidden factory equipped with sophisticated chemical-production devices. Cult leader Shoko Asahara remained in hiding, while followers protested their innocence...
...being inflammatory, he at least owes his reader some form of insight. Of course, knowing that Conley prefers to rabble-rouse and "martyr" himself to the conservative cause without any substance behind his claims, I am sure that he is pleased beyond words that his name appears as the target of yet another complaint to the Crimson (although never written as large as his ego demands it to be signed on his comic strip). Gene...
...that criticism is often more on-target than most readers even realize...