Word: targetting
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Minority communities have called the problem DWB -- driving while black. Police departments around the country have denied that they target minority drivers for traffic stops, searches and arrests. But confirmation of the practice came this week from none other than New Jersey -- one of the states where the accusations have been the strongest in the wake of an April 1998 incident in which two white state troopers fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and one Hispanic. ?This is a systematic problem that everyone in the minority community believes is a well-established police practice,? says TIME...
Before giving a green light to the chopper mission, the President passed the war's first week by studying Pentagon target plans, testing allied support for such a move and asking top advisers for their opinions. One weekend morning, while Clinton worked the phones with leaders overseas, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Henry Shelton shuttled for an hour between the Oval Office and the patio outside, alternately answering Clinton's questions and enjoying an incandescent spring day. Finally the aides left the President alone to decide whether...
...decided to give them as little information as possible," he said on the NewsHour last week. There have been cracks in the armor: some Pentagon officials were upset when the Washington Post reported, two days in advance of an attack, that the U.S. planned to widen air strikes to target ministries in Belgrade...
...their wares. That and the fact that some Internet companies have begun to make real money have prompted firms like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to begin raising initial prices on their deals as well. In the first quarter, 24 of 25 Internet IPOs were priced above the initial target...
Bombing Belgrade has certainly inspired the Serb city's thriving graphic-arts community. The "target" symbol worn by anti-NATO protesters, and Easter eggs (7), and now to be made into a Serbian stamp (5), is only the latest cultural icon to emerge from a people used to making memorable gestures--like the three-fingered Serb salute (2). From the sassy anti-American graphics of Serbian websites (4) to the menacing tiger patch (6) of Arkan's soldiers to the drawings that children (3) made reportedly "while the bombs were falling," the Serbs are winning the image...