An early target: companies controlled by the oligarchs, businessmen who control most of the country's big industries.

Not surprisingly, the unions were an early target of "normalization" efforts.

The early targets included an airline executive and a plane manufacturer.

He is clearly a murderer and will be an early target for the foreign forces.

The various support and maintenance activities which could relatively easily be 'contracted out' were early targets.

ABC's earlier targets, electronics industry groups, had paid him $25,000 to make a speech for them.

One of its earliest targets was the laundry industry.

But company executives did not say how much they expected the results to exceed the earlier target.

The television studios were one of the early targets during the American air campaign over Baghdad.

Those had been early targets of the enemy's surprise onslaught.