Word: target
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cabin to a nearby goat pen, approaching a spot where police and FBI agents were hiding. As planned, Lieut. House set loose an attack dog in an effort to capture him. But the dog hesitated, and when House stepped from cover to encourage the animal, he became an easy target. Singer, whose husband John was killed by police in a similar siege nine years ago, believed that further violence would lead to John's resurrection...
Cohen: Obviously, Universal, like every movie studio, wants everything. We know that the target audience is obviously from the Wes Craven crowd. That is the most certain way we're going to pull an audience in. Everyone that loved Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 2, and 3 will say, "OK, I want a really good scary movie. I want my girlfriend to grab my arm," and the whole thing. We are hoping that through the reviews and by talking with journalists and us going on the road, we can begin communicate that there are other levels to this movie that...
...fall of La Generale's share price in the stock-market plunge made it a perfect target. Yet De Benedetti, an engineer by training who turned a moribund Olivetti into a global power in office computers, is unlikely to take apart La Generale as a ruthless raider might do. Instead, he aims to expand the company into a Continental conglomerate in preparation for the era beyond 1992, when the trade barriers between the twelve European Community countries are scheduled to be eliminated. That step will create a wide-open marketplace of some 320 million consumers, a powerful launching...
...Vice President launched a sneaky missile in the debate when he challenged his rivals to release their tax returns. Dole was the target; Bush aides estimate he and his wife Elizabeth had combined 1986 incomes of close to $600,000. If true, this figure might undercut Dole's pleas to Iowa voters to regard...
Even in the era of corporate raiders, when almost any company smaller than General Motors is fair game, A.H. Robins seemed to be an unlikely target. The Richmond pharmaceutical firm has been bogged down in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings since 1985, and faces billions of dollars in claims from women who say they were injured by Robins' Dalkon Shield, a small plastic intrauterine birth-control device. Yet in the past few weeks suitors lined up as if Robins had discovered a cure for cancer. Two U.S. drug companies (Manhattan-based American Home Products and the Rorer Group of suburban Philadelphia...