Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite a strong community service showing this year, has been the target of some criticism for doing exactly what it seems so proud of--working closely with...
...answer for all that liberal silliness--Jessica Lange testifying on farm policy after starring in Country or Meryl Streep testifying that traces of the pesticide Alar could be harmful to apple juice-swilling children. Her wealth, high visibility and long fingernails make her a much more attractive target than gray leaders of industries who hold forth on things they know nothing about. But that's not enough to explain why she has become such a lightning rod for criticism. Why is it that Arnold Schwarzenegger can hang out with Newt Gingrich and not take any hits? What Streisand...
...retirement to tackle AIDS, many people cheered-especially the growing numbers of patients infected with hiv. Who better to lead the charge against the current plague than the conqueror of an infamous childhood scourge? Within the scientific community, though, there was more doubt than expectation. AIDS was a tougher target than polio, and few experts believed that Salk's approach to making a vaccine would work...
TIME: How do you plan a bombing of this kind? How was the target chosen? SHKAKI: It was planned very well. The two mujahedin [the Gaza men who carried the bombs] knew each other very well. Before the attack happened, they went to the scene of the operation and studied it carefully. At the appointed time, they went from Gaza to Tel Aviv, and from Tel Aviv to the military bus station, which was well protected. Beside the military station there was a small coffee shop where soldiers go. The two men coordinated between them: the first was to enter...
...comedian was uncharacteristically serious as he voiced concerns about early admissions policies that target athletes and other talented students but, this year, failed to provide the class of 1999 with "one funny person...