Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...empty rooms are distributed unevenly among the houses. Although Mather House has about eight empty rooms, several houses, including Lowell, Dunster and Adams, are slightly above their target populations...
Though talking to foreigners is forbidden, a tourist alone presents an irresistible target. A phone rings in his hotel room, and a girl the visitor has never met professes eternal love, leading, no doubt, to a quickie marriage and a ticket out. A government worker takes him aside and asks, with great diffidence, if he would mind very much having his passport stolen. "Nobody is happy, but everyone is afraid to speak out," observes a habanero. "Nobody trusts anybody else. A few years ago, a generation arose that wanted reform. ( Now the main preoccupation is keeping quiet. People are waiting...
...picked up more than two dozen of the region's 300 wineries, among them the Almaden label (now British) and the St. Clement Vineyard (Japanese). In Alaska, Japanese investors control more than one-third of the state's $680 million seafood-packing industry. U.S. farmland might be a bigger target for raiders, except that more than two dozen states have imposed controls or bans on foreign ownership...
...give them the opportunity to demonstrate that the same is true in the labor-relations arena." Bieber's 1.1 < million-member union thereupon served notice last week, well before its labor contract expires on Sept. 14, that the No. 2 U.S. automaker would be the U.A.W.'s priority target in seeking a new three-year pact. The designation was meant to put increased bargaining pressure on the target company, a pattern that in years past meant a settlement with Ford would quickly be applied to GM and Chrysler as well. But that is no longer the case: bargaining this year...
Maybe not at GM, where the U.A.W. contract expires along with Ford's. (Chrysler's domestic U.A.W. contract does not expire until next year. But some 70,000 Canadian workers whose contracts with all three automakers expire this month picked the No. 3 company last week as their strike target.) On the contrary, GM Chairman Roger Smith said last week, "I don't know of anyone in the world who can give you a 100% job guarantee if you are in a cyclical industry...