Word: target
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...Hampshire, Bush is still the favorite of conservative Republicans in national polls. "Bush is a conservative who doesn't scare moderates," brags a top adviser, who insists that Bush can lose New Hampshire to McCain and still cruise to the nomination. "Our message doesn't just resonate with one target group; it resonates with all of them...
...Russian media. The few journalists in the city say hospitals are overflowing. The breakaway government claims more than 4,000 have died, though this cannot be independently confirmed. But Chechen doctors who worked through the last war are grimly confident that once again civilians will be the main target. "Last time one [Chechen] fighter was killed for every 170 civilians," Ayub Baudin, head doctor of a hospital in Shali, about 16 miles southeast of Grozny, said during a visit to Chechnya last month. This time the fighters are better trained, he added, so more civilians will die for each dead...
...company has reaffirmed its commitment to trying to stop the trade and even added a bit of a spin: a sense that the boycott was aimed directly at the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), the rebel group led by Jonas Savimbi that has been a target of largely ineffectual U.N. sanctions since 1993. Explains De Beers spokesman Andrew Lamont: "The only goal is to do as much as we can to help the U.N. to limit the ability of UNITA to carry on the conflict...
...Victoria's Secret or a boutique store, or to shop online. Nearly 25 new cosmetics websites have been launched this fall. Even the mass-market retailers are taking their cue from the indies. Sears has just introduced T.i.m.e. (The Instant Makeup Expert), a $20 color-coordinated kit; and Target is relying on Sonia Kashuk, Cindy Crawford's makeup artist, for cachet. At the other end of the market, Terry de Gunzburg, a French makeup artist, offers $76 lipsticks and compacts...
RICHARD SCRUGGS Attorney-hero of The Insider has new target: HMOs. But should lawyers set national policy...