Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least one group in Washington has escaped the long arm of the Lewinsky scandal: AmeriCorps. The national service program is a favorite of President Clinton?s, and its supporters were worried that it might be a target for his congressional critics. But the four-year-old program has won over skeptics by emphasizing its grassroots structure and its alliance with respected nonprofit organizations around the country. Members are selected by and work for such groups as Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Habitat for Humanity. AmeriCorps prevailed on a key Senate funding vote in July...
...purpose of the MSA is to promote a dialogue on campus," said Raman. "This [affirmative action panel] aims to get people talking about important political issues. Our target audience is the entire Harvard community...
...Some analyses here have been more on target then those elsewhere in the university and elsewhere in the country. There were some people in the other parts of the University who were optimists about the way the reforms were going," Goldman said. "Some of us here were more skeptical of what was happening and felt that some of the things that were being done were wrong. We were proved to be correct...
...just curious because I don't ever want to attend a party he might be a part of. I've read his "offensively arrogant," sexist opinions for some time now. If I were "confined [and] pumped full of alcohol," I might feel compelled to "find an easy target to eradicate injustice...
People generally think of a vaccine as something that fends off an illness before it gets started. But this one mobilizes the immune system against already established tumors. Lyerly and his colleagues aim to enhance the ability of dendritic cells, an alarm conveyor in the immune system, to target the cancerous cells and make it easier for the body's killer T cells to recognize and destroy them. If it works, this approach promises a more effective and much less toxic alternative to the carpet bombing that is chemotherapy. After decades in which immune therapies have failed to live...