Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time discounter, Sears rang up about twice as much in sales as usual. Michael Bozic, chairman of the Sears Merchandise Group, said he found the response "extremely gratifying." But the longer- term question is whether Sears will consistently be able to match the prices of such established discounters as Target and Toys "R" Us. Shopper Nichelle Smith, 20, who went to a Sears outlet in suburban St. Louis last week to shop for inexpensive children's clothing, appreciated the lower prices but wondered whether Sears will stay competitive. Said she: "I'm going to come back and see if this...
...many believe the Core has not completely met its broad educational aims. A frequent target for criticism is the Core's science content. In an otherwise rosy accreditation review last year, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges found Harvard's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) superficial and criticized the absence of math in the Core...
...Bush may be handing over the economic throttle to Greenspan by failing to take any tough deficit-reduction measures that might remove the heat from prices and interest rates. The Administration has little real chance to hit the Gramm-Rudman target without a tax increase, which Bush has ruled out, or politically unpopular spending cuts, which the President seems loath to initiate. Bush's strategy of leaving the hard choices to Congress has led so far to budget gridlock. Concedes a senior Administration official: "If Congress accepts our budget, economic growth and inflation and interest rates will take care...
...seemingly tried to defuse the crisis a few days earlier when he spoke of Rushdie's possible repentance. But Khamenei sounded almost as fierce as the Ayatullah last week, saying of the death edict, "The long black arrow has been slung and is now traveling toward its target. There is nothing more that can be done." Western governments, he added, had made the mistake of confusing "freedom of expression with the freedom to insult 1 billion Muslims...
...Another target was Khomeini's designated successor, Ayatullah Ali Montazeri, 64, who recently acknowledged that Iran's revolutionary leaders erred in isolating their country from the rest of the world. Khomeini was deeply offended by such talk. Dismissing the views of those who regard "martyrdom and self-sacrifice" as "worthless," he declared last week, "I formally apologize to the ((families)) of the martyred . . . and ask God to accept me next to the martyrs of the imposed war." He added, "We are not for a moment sorry for our actions during...