Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ASHER EDELMAN generates equal amounts of enmity and sympathy for offering $100,000 to that student in his class who could find a likely corporate takeover target for the master of that financial maneuver. Most business school administrators, including Thomas R. Piper, a Harvard B-School administrator, roundly criticized Edelman's offer, charging that it violated the sancitity of the classroom...
...tastes with the seasons. Because she was so tireless and acid-tongued an evangelist for her opinions, and because her opinions were so fierce -- especially a longtime hatred of Communism and an unswerving devotion to the Catholicism to which she converted in mid-life -- she presented an irresistible target to her adversaries. And because she had the misfortune of being on easy terms with glamour as well as with success, she was sometimes accused of manipulating men, sometimes of being manipulated by them. While admirers gushed over her rare blend of cleverness and charm, detractors focused only on her deployment...
Even veterans of the five previous coup attempts found the latest plot to overthrow Philippine President Corazon Aquino alarming. According to army intelligence last week, Aquino was to be the target of an uprising this month led by prominent Right-Wing Politicians Gregorio Honasan, the fugitive colonel whose August mutiny nearly toppled Aquino, and Ferdinand Marcos. One crony reportedly even had a six-seater plane ready to spirit the exiled Marcos from Hawaii to Manila...
Supporters led by committee Chairman Walter B. Jones (D-N.C.) and Rep. Robert W. Davis (R-Mich.), the ranking GOP member, argued that the fee was the only way to meet the budget target and not resort to a Coast Guard user fee for domestic vessels, an approach favored by the administration but traditionally opposed by the committee and the boating community...
Compare those numbers with the all-time Crimson marks of 112 completions (Jim Stoeckel, 1973), 208 attempts (Steckel, 1973) 1575 yards (Larry Brown, 1978), and 16 touchdowns (Milt Holt, 1974), and you can see that Yohe is on target to rewrite the record book well before Harvard rolls into New Haven on November...