Today, employee training, targeted recruiting, mentoring programs and management-level "diversity councils" are commonplace throughout the industry.

But many of the Mayor's proposed cuts were different, targeting several programs the Council added to the budget in June.

These attacks have targeted innocent civilians, humanitarian programs and international organizations trying to help the Haitian people.

Significant staff resources also have been devoted to on-site visits and to sharing information and best practices, targeting programs undergoing consolidation.

But the company has always maintained that its throttling accurately targeted file-sharing programs and not other software.

The report concluded that targeted programs do not perform substantially better than non-targeted programs.

"We're not in the business of targeting particular programs."

According to Mitchell Daniels, the budget director, the administration is targeting only inefficient programs.

This policy particularly targeted older programs recorded in black-and-white, leading to the loss of many recordings made before 1975, when Australian television converted to color.

They have also targeted programs that provide fuel oil to the poor and assistance to homeless veterans.