1.   A perennial target of budget cutters, it became for critics the emblematic federal program that would not die.

2.   Nike, a perennial target that has tried to respond to its critics with a series of reforms, was mentioned often for its Michael Jordan line of sneakers.

3.   The agency has been a perennial political target for conservatives, largely because of some of the controversial projects it has supported.

4.   The novels of J.D. Salinger and John Steinbeck, which deal with self-conscious teen-agers and the rough edge of life, respectively, are perennial targets.

5.   The National Endowment for the Arts has been a perennial political target for conservatives because of some of the controversial projects it has supported.

6.   The same has been said many times of Microsoft, which has been a perennial target of federal regulators.

7.   So, too, Rep. David Bonior of Michigan, the second-ranking Democrat in the House and a perennial Republican target whose district will be altered significantly.

8.   The LSC, a perennial target of GOP budget-cutters, has accepted the restrictions as an alternative to being put out of business altogether by congressional opponents.

9.   The LSC, a perennial target of Republican budget-cutters, swallowed the restrictions as an alternative to being put out of business altogether.

10.   The Legal Services Corporation, a perennial target of Republican budget-cutters, swallowed the restrictions as an alternative to being put out of business altogether.