Word: targets
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Sajak and Hall will compete against each other in many cities, but their main target is that unyielding edifice of late night, the Tonight show, starring Johnny Carson. The mission might seem suicidal. A gaggle of talk hosts, from Joey Bishop to Alan Thicke, have emerged over the years to challenge Carson, only to slink away in failure. But Sajak and Hall have one potential advantage: they could simply outlast Carson. After 26 years behind the desk, the NBC veteran may be nearing retirement, though neither he nor NBC will comment on whether he expects to continue beyond September. Even...
Feldstein argues that the United States should not try to slow the dollar's fall by pegging it to other nation's currencies or by setting target ranges. In order to act with maximum efficiency, Feldstein believes the Federal Reserve Board should let markets determine the value of the dollar (however low that may be) and focus its monetary weapons on controlling inflation at home...
...least one Drexel employee behind bars. In perhaps its most humiliating cave-in, Drexel agreed to cooperate with the Government investigation of Michael Milken, the financial wizard who created the market for high-yielding junk bonds (total now held: $180 billion) and who remains the ultimate target of Giuliani's probe. Milken, who was not represented in the settlement talks, is expected to be indicted in Manhattan sometime in January...
...parents determined that their one child should be a boy. Moreover, officials have acknowledged that exceptions to the one-child rule have been frequently condoned, especially in rural areas. In fact, only 19% of Chinese couples have one child. Beijing has announced that the nation will miss its target: the country's projected population in the year 2000 is 1.27 billion...
Federal regulations require that automakers produce fleets of cars with an average fuel efficiency of 26 m.p.g. The Government originally set a fuel- efficiency target of 27.5 m.p.g. for 1986, but the Reagan Administration allowed the car companies to postpone that goal. The new Administration should institute the 27.5 m.p.g. requirement and then gradually raise it to 45 m.p.g. by the year...