Word: targetedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...including the country's two largest pro-choice groups, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood, launched ads in Rhode Island, Maine and on national cable last week. NARAL has launched a grassroots campaign among 27 affiliates around the country timed for the Senate's Thanksgiving recess that will target members by requesting meetings, writing letters to editors and circulating petitions...
Thousands of miners staged a violent two-week demonstration last September in Las Claritas, Venezuela, close to the Brazilian border. They blocked the border highway, burned trucks and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at national-guard troops. Their main target was Crystallex, a Toronto-based company that since 2002 is said to have held the legal rights to Las Cristinas--the world's fifth largest gold mine, with 12.5 million oz. of proven reserves...
...militias and Iranian intelligence." While al-Jaafari conceded that a corrupt Interior official could have been bribed to carry out the killings, he says the likely culprits are ex-Baathists and "those who want to disrupt the political process." An ex-Baathist field commander says his group wouldn't target Saddam's attorneys. "These people are doing their duty defending any accused," says the leader of the insurgent al-Tamimi brigade of Jaish Mohammed...
...fundraisers have yielded record donations, raising $590 million in fiscal year 2005, its second-highest annual total. The sum reflects both large gifts and contributions from donors who are not alumni.But Rapier said the declining alumni participation does not reflect a change in strategy to land larger gifts and target non-alumni.“New areas of focus for Harvard development are being done by new staff, while we continue to invest in the Harvard College Fund and our other annual fund efforts,” Rapier said in an e-mail.A NOT-SO-TAXING DECISIONHarvard could...
...times more personal computers than the 85 percent living in poor and middle-ranking countries. The Geneva meeting set a goal of bringing half the world's population online by 2015; the Tunis meeting is expected to work out a plan of action for achieving that target. Perhaps the most novel innovation: The $100 wind-up lap-top introduced by MIT director Nicholas Negroponte, who plans to have millions in production within a year in order to facilitate computerized education for the some of the world's poorest children...