Word: target
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview yesterday, O'Hara would not comment further on his office's closure beyond giving the April target date. But in a January 17 memo issued to all offices, Purchasing Director William F. Valentine said the decision to close HUS was made for reasons of cost and efficiency...
...Director William Casey--$800 million in government funds is diverted to produce a Hollywood epic. "Tet Offensive"--the film which was based on the book, "Tet Offensive," which was further based on the real-life Vietnam war attack--was to be shot in Central America. Only this time the target, that is the target in the film, was to be the Communist occupied Central American nation of Ambigua...
...admirable battle to "stop bigotry and racism" at Harvard, Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs and Race Relations Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle has found a new and unfortunate target: Harvard's Dining Services...
...police, reading every morning and watching on TV every night the stories about shootouts endangering innocent bystanders -- start arming themselves in case they have to join the battle. It used to be that the great majority of American gun owners bought their weapons for hunting or sport (target shooting, for instance). But recent surveys show nearly 50% mentioning self-protection as their primary reason. Says Mark Warr, a sociologist at the University of Texas: "It's a giving up on the system. People have lost confidence in the ability of local government to control crime. There is a growing feeling...
...stock into employees' hands as a maneuver in its bitter six- month battle against a takeover bid by Shamrock Holdings, owned by the Roy Disney family. Because Massachusetts-based Polaroid is incorporated in Delaware, where an anti-takeover law requires that bidders must get 85% ownership of a target company to gain control, the ESOP is leaving Shamrock with almost no room to maneuver. When a Delaware court rejected Shamrock's challenge of the ESOP, Polaroid's workers "jumped up and down with joy," said Nicholas Pasquarosa, chairman of the employee committee. "We have developed loyalties here...