Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Generally, however, prices seem to be trending higher. Paramount released Beverly Hills Cop on cassette in 1985 at $29.95. But when Beverly Hills Cop II arrives in the stores this month, it will sell for $89.95. Paramount executives explain that they are simply being selective about which films they target as probable big sellers, and thus candidates for bargain prices. Says Bob Klingensmith, president of Paramount's video division: "You don't have a Top Gun every month...
Even by gangland standards, the Jamaican dealers are uncommonly vicious. Since the late '70s, the Jamaicans have been implicated in as many as 800 murders nationwide; an estimated 150 of those killings occurred in Miami alone. "If a target happens to be in a group of four or five others," says Bruce Snyder of the local office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, "too bad for the four or five others...
...addition, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David R. Pilbeam said the Core Curriculum now offers about 70 courses each year although the target number...
...Parejo Gonzalez, Colombia's Ambassador to Hungary, was ambushed in Budapest. Last November men armed with guns attacked the home of Juan Gomez Martinez, a candidate for mayor of Medellin who vows to fight the drug scourge if he wins an election scheduled for March 13. They missed their target, and Gomez Martinez now campaigns under the protection of six bodyguards...
Costa Rica, by contrast, seems an unlikely target for the Medellin cartel. The country has no army, is not dominated by greedy generals or politicians, and is proud of a democratic tradition. Yet Costa Rica's ports and its more than 200 rural airstrips have become key transit points for cocaine cargos. In recent years the Costa Rican business community has noticed that shipments of perishable products receive a less rigorous Customs inspection than nonperishable goods upon entering the U.S. Thus they are often used to conceal drugs...