Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another woman who had been a close associate of Barry's went to jail for dealing cocaine and later admitted before a grand jury that the mayor paid her $25,000 to deny that he had been a buyer. Barry himself has been the target of two federal investigations centering on influence-peddling and the misuse of city contracts, has illegally used city funds for his family's personal expenses, and had to be thrown out of the house of a young model he had been harrassing...
...younger TV hosts has proved a quick study in knowing what to say and show, especially at a time when things forbidden one month may be permissible the next. View host Zakharov compares it with being "a sharpshooter. You have to wait until the right moment to hit the target. But you must learn to compromise. That is part of the new tolerance...
Even so, the Hafts may come out ahead. In three years they have reaped some $200 million in profits on six failed takeovers -- more than most raiders make by capturing their prey. In most cases, the Hafts quietly bought up a chunk of the target's shares, then sold at a premium after takeover frenzy drove up the price...
Receivers: Wideout Neil Phillips had an excellent game against Holy Cross last weekend. He caught a career-high eight passes for 114 yards and a touchdown. He is tall (6-ft., 5-in.) and, therefore, a great target over the middle. But the is also fast, Yohe's main deep threat. Hinz is the Crimson's leading receiver (16 catches for 280 yards...
...best moments explore the extent of male folly. His characters are often driven by lust, a drive that they often do not understand or which threatens to overwhelm them. A bombastic portrait of a Married to the Mob type who has just eaten a huge meal is particularly on target. As he advises his nephew Vincent to fall in love, he reminisces about his own youth, when he was a "human hard-on" and "a dick with clothes on." "You don't get married," he warns, "you never going to have a Christmas tree...