Word: target
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Phantom Menace to drive sales into the crucial fourth quarter, which accounts for half of all toy sales. However, the force has not been with the Star Wars line. "It was very strong in May and June, during the movie's release," says Leslie Rauch, a senior buyer for Target stores. "But since then, it's become nothing more than a boy's action figure." Schwarz of Rumpus Toys says the response from the big toy companies will be to spend millions more dollars on licensed merchandise tied to movies. "That way, if they fail, no one can blame them...
...divisions: "It's very cliquish here," says junior Lauren Bell, "but each group is actually very mixed--it's not all the jocks, all the preps, all the punks, and I like that." Lauren sometimes considers herself an outsider, albeit a straight-A, cheerleading one. "You become a target, not really for looking different, but for thinking different from other people," she says, "like not caring about being popular. That is really asking...
...veiled stereotypes giving stereotyped reactions in scenes that have been written a thousand times before, in a thousand better ways. The bats produce only laughter rather than gasps of fear as they crawl gargoyle-like across the screen. Casper and Kimsey are flat and undeveloped. In fact, the sole target audience that will not be disappointed by Bats would appear to be the masochists. Although quite honestly, the same affect could be achieved by banging one's head against the wall for an hour and a half, and it would be far less expensive. For after viewing the movie whose...
...Billy comes over and spits up at the kid on the railing. His target moves to spit back, but Billy jumps away and the frothy white wad of saliva drops to the asphalt...
...following Justice's decision to indict the company Tuesday for violating its export license by supplying sophisticated equipment that it allegedly knew would be used for military purposes. "McDonnell Douglas claims that a Justice Department, under pressure from Republicans to get tough on China, is picking on the wrong target here," says TIME correspondent Viveca Novak. "But the government wouldn?t proceed unless it had a very strong case." After all, despite the political pressure over the Chinese nuclear spying allegations, lack of evidence restrained Justice from pressing charges against Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, which suggests the department...