Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stockman, 37, didn't earn a college degree until 1990 and worked sporadically while raising money in the conservative churches of east Texas for a campaign that would spend little more than $100,000. But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate. Jack Brooks, an ex-Marine who chomped on a cigar in his seat as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee long after the ashtrays were removed, could be a poster child for term limits. More liberal than his east Texas constituents on issues like civil rights, he had hung tenaciously...
President Clinton, who weatheredbarbs at home for ignoring human rightsas he cemented this week's Asian-Pacific trade deal, wrapped up his trip to Indonesia with a small about-face. His target wasn't China, but the host country, where 29 East Timorese students continued a sit-in on the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta to protest Indonesian occupation of their nearby homeland. "We cannot turn away from that cause and we will not," Clinton declared, after Indonesian President Suharto agreed not to harass the students after the U.S. contingent left. (Suharto, not known for his bleeding heart...
...House staff a bunch of "McGoverniks" after Election Day and ruin his "enemies of normal people" remark. "The truth is, occasionally, I'm not very smart," Gingrich told Dateline NBC. "I probably need to be 30 percent less pugnacious and 50 less negative." Meanwhile, the first comment's indirect target, former Senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, responded in a column in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I fully welcome the scorn of Gingrich. I have nothing but disdain toward this unscrupulous demagogue . . . In any event, the 'McGoverniks' whom Gingrich fears did not get to the White House...
...highest-ranking woman on the Los Angeles police department -- may be linked to the case. That possibility came to light after suggestions surfaced that she was involved in the investigation of a police detective who played a critical role in the murder investigation.The detective, Mark Fuhrman, has been the target of police inquiries and questions have been raised by Simpson's legal team about his role in the probe of the double murder. A different judge will preside over the hearing, scheduled for Monday...
USAir -- the target of ongoing study since two of its jetliners were involved in fatal crashes this year -- criticized a report published Sunday by The New York Times, which claimed the airline has allowed jets to leave gates without enough fuel at least nine times and once used a jet for 13 days despite a dangerous crack on its wing flap. USAir said it had followed federal guidelines in all these cases except an emergency landing at La Guardia, in which it said personnel deviated from established refueling procedures. (USAir says it suspended the pilot and first officer without...