11.   Looking at what comes next for BMW, which has been seen as a ripe takeover target.

12.   Porter says procurement and data processing are always ripe targets, and the people running those departments lead charmed lives and are seldom fired.

13.   Proponents of such a line, presumably, are now ripe targets for hard-liners in the government.

14.   Practical jokers like Hostetler know that piece of equipment is a ripe target for pranks.

15.   The administration worries that American soldiers or American officials deployed abroad would be ripe targets for politically motivated prosecutors.

16.   The Fed is ripe target for attempted oversight by critics in Congress.

17.   The second battle was to save the Commerce Department itself from a Republican-dominated Congress that viewed it as a ripe target for disassembly or outright abolition.

18.   The second battle was to save the Commerce Department itself from a Republican-dominated Congress that viewed it as a ripe target for downsizing or outright abolition.

19.   There are competing theories about why the Commerce Department is seen as such a ripe target.

20.   To a generation of comic impressionists, the astronomer with the deep voice and deliberate, impassioned cadences was a ripe target for parody.