Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very clear from the wording of the invitations that the purpose behind informing managers of the meetings is to eliminate any employee concern over attending an out-of-office meeting during work time. And of course the personnel representative should be there--that's exactly who should be the target of the tough questions. Nothing was asked of the employees at these meetings except an open mind...
...Senior Gift for Undergraduate ate Education, none of which is invested in the endowment, was created so that seniors could contribute directly to the undergraduate budget. Seniors can target their gifts for scholarships--which directly benefit over 70 percent of undergraduates through loans, work/study, and especially grants, or for general use, which helps pay for other undergraduate expenses such as athletics, intramurals, faculty salaries, and maintenance of the House system and libraries. A donation to the Class Gift is a positive contribution to help ensure that future undergraduates have access to the same types of undergraduate programs and activities that...
...chief target for USA Today is viewers who have already heard or seen the day's top news and want an extra helping of follow-up stories and features. A presentation videotape indicates that the show will match the newspaper's fondness for personalities, opinion polls and stray factoids (24% of all married people say they have a secret that would destroy their marriage). The show will have its own staff but will draw on the newspaper for ideas and preview some of the paper's next-day stories...
...come to be known as the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights. While no one denies that the IRS should be tough on tax cheats, critics charge that the agency is often too quick to seize property, sometimes moves on the basis of flimsy evidence, and frequently does not give its target a chance to set things right. Says David Burton, a tax specialist with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "Situations between taxpayers and the IRS now get nasty very quickly, and they are hard to get straightened...
...cross-border attack on what it said was an A.N.C. guerrilla transit facility, situated twelve miles inside Botswana. South African forces staged a postmidnight raid on the house, shot to death four people asleep inside, including at least two Botswanan women, and escaped by helicopter after fire bombing the target. Said Defense Minister General Magnus Malan: "It is the policy of the South African government to combat terror wherever it may occur...