Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Security benefits that people receive when they retire could be reduced by 5%. In addition, the book asserts that the rate of growth in payments that hospitals receive for each Medicare patient should be slashed by more than two-thirds, after adjustment for inflation. For all domestic programs, the target would be savings of $46 billion...
...deductions and closing loopholes. Congress could, for example, raise $3.9 billion by taxing employees on employer contributions to health plans and $600 million by reducing business entertainment deductions by 50%. The Brookings book lists 23 such-steps that could bring in $30 billion, but suggests that a politically realistic target might be $15 billion. The additional $8 billion needed to meet the $23 billion revenue goal could be raised by imposing a temporary 2% income tax surcharge...
...primary target of the intermediate and upper level courses is to give students a practical command of the language, according to Rivers. For example, the recently created Spanish Cd, "Spanish Oral Survival Course," was designed so that "if a student were helicoptered into Spain tomorrow, he or she could communicate," Rivers explained...
...that I look back on them, our demands seem to have been no mistake. Not only did we never doubt them; they represented precisely what we wanted, and not just at Harvard. ROTC became a target of nationwide protest, and students struck against university expansion from People's Park to Morningside Heights. We were willing to risk expulsion, police beatings and jail in order to obtain precisely these two concessions from Harvard University. On one level, it is clear why. ROTC and expansion were the closest embodiments at Harvard of what we believed were the crimes of the nation. Harvard...
Another key target of the SEC recommendations is the practice known as "greenmail." This involves buying up sufficient shares in a company to pose a takeover threat or proxy challenge. In order to head off the move, many companies are willing to buy back the purchased shares at a premium price. Greenmail practitioners include New York Financier Carl Icahn, 48, whose group pocketed $30 million when he sold his stock in Marshall Field to England's B.A.T. Industries, and Publisher Rupert Murdoch, 53, who made $40 million when Warner Communications bought back his shares at 35% more than...