Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's more, even the best of Dems are envious of Republican organizational skills. Ornstein says the Republicans are better at spending their money. That is, because their funding organizations are tightly centralized, they can carefully target funds towards close races. Democratic funding organizations, by contrast, are more decentralized and those candidates who need large sums of cash are often left in the lurch while runaway winners sometimes find huge chunks of money in their treasuries when their campaigns are over...
Finally, as if its fundraising edge were not substantial enough, the GOP can target all its resources for the November run-off, while Democratic hopefuls throw their funds into their nomination bids...
...involved. Hunt, a civilian, was head of the 2,600-man contingent patrolling the Sinai under the terms of the 1978 Camp David agreements. A retired foreign-service officer, he was not among the highest-ranking Americans in Italy, but Middle East duties would have made him a prime target for extremists from the region. Authorities are most alarmed over the possibility that some of the estimated 300 Italian terrorists known to be at large may have allied themselves with the pro-Iranian Shi'ites responsible for car-bomb attacks on the French and U.S. Marine compounds in Beirut...
...already passed, were becoming less eager to buy. Wall Street was also growing fussy about corporate profits, which traditionally serve as benchmarks for prices. Says Cooperman: "Stocks have been performing in a mediocre manner when earnings were as expected. They performed poorly when earnings were only modestly below target. And they have been devastated when profits were significantly off the mark." Even IBM, despite record 1983 income and good prospects for this year, has seen its stock value slide. While IBM stood at 134¼ last Oct. 10, it closed last week...
...with its large population of Shi'ite Moslems and close proximity to Iran, was more than a little threatened by these plans. Further, Khomeini's voiced hatred for Saddam-Hossein, who a decade earlier had ousted the politically active Ayatollah from Iraq, made the latter an even more likely target for revolutionary expansion...