Word: targeting
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...still provides farmers with considerable protection from the vicissitudes of the marketplace. Washington makes cash payments to them if prices fall below Government-set "target prices." In addition, the Government encourages farmers to store on their own land, partly at taxpayers' expense, any crops that they do not sell immediately. These can be used as collateral for low-interest loans from the Government, which annually sets a "loan price...
...meat consumption is about 121 Ibs. annually. While meat and fish account for about 20% of the average American diet, they provide only 8% of the Soviet diet. Demand in the U.S.S.R. is intense, but the current Five-Year-Plan calls for increasing it only 27% by 1985. That target probably could not be reached even without the embargo. But no one will go hungry because of the embargo. Russians are breadeaters, and there is no concern on that score...
Thus was the Carter Administration wrestling publicly with the thorny question of whether its reprisals against the Soviets should, for the first time, include the Olympic Games as a target. Many supporters of the Games argue that a boycott for any political reason is totally wrong and inappropriate. "If the Olympic Games are to survive," says Don Miller, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee (u.s.o.c.), "they must be apolitical and remain in the private sector...
...relations with nations around the arc of crisis, from radical Libya to reactionary Saudi Arabia, the Carter Administration is being less fastidious about the humanitarian virtues of the various regimes than it would have been before the Afghan crisis. A month ago, for example, Pakistan was a triple target for American pressure: the U.S. was working to thwart the country's nuclear aspirations, goading the military government to restore democracy, and withholding military supplies. Now U.S. policymakers look at Pakistan as a vital and vulnerable piece on the strategic chessboard, and they are muting their civics lectures and reversing...
Though the remark brought guffaws, the basic issue before the court is serious: What is a manufacturer's responsibility when injury results from the use of a product? That question is currently being addressed in a number of potentially far-reaching cases. To date, Ford has been the target of more than 50 civil suits involving allegations that Pintos made from 1971 through 1976 are unusually prone to catching fire when hit from the rear. But in the Indiana trial, the company is facing criminal charges of reckless homicide, the first such action ever brought against an automaker...