Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administration is having a harder time making its case that the struggle is worthwhile. Meanwhile, the drug Mafia has struck back with more than 200 bombings and singled out and killed at least 13 officials. By the standards of civil war, the DAS headquarters would qualify as a military target and therefore part of the price paid by a country in conflict. But by blasting out of the sky a civilian airplane filled with innocent passengers, the narcos served notice that no one is safe from their vengeance...
President Bush, for his part, has declared money launderers a critical target in the war on drugs, allocating $15 million to launch a counteroffensive. While the sum is minuscule for the task, the declaration signals a change in philosophy for the Administration, which had resisted calls for tighter banking regulations. Only hours after Bush unveiled his antidrug offensive last September, a federal task force began taking shape. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) hopes to zero in on money launderers with computer programs capable of spotting suspicious movements of electronic money...
...another. A federal study released in August found that as many as 47% of patients at 15 methadone clinics across the country continued to use heroin or other opiates, and up to 40% used nonopiate drugs, usually cocaine. So scientists find themselves aiming their magic bullet at a moving target. "We're constantly having to treat new disease," said Marvin Snyder, director of NIDA's medications- development program. "In five years, the problem may not be cocaine, but some drug we haven't even heard...
...professes to be unperturbed. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said it will not delay licensing future nuclear plants as long as it looks as if a waste repository will be in operation within the first quarter of the next century. Given the Government's record so far, even that target may prove to be a problematic...
...mission, they and their Soviet counterparts retained some of their fighting spirit. Soviet sailors interviewed by the Malta press implied that the older Belknap was a bit of a clunker compared with their cruiser Slava. An American gob, eyeing the Slava's conical superstructure, sniffed, "It makes a good target." But that was about as hostile an environment as could be found until the weather struck, an adversity that may actually have encouraged deeper thought...