Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will pay out $368.5 billion over the next 25 years, strictly limit advertising, and agree to FDA regulation -- began even before a group of state attorneys general announced the deal last Friday afternoon. The American Lung Association expressed doubts that the deal would really curtail tobacco's ability to target children, and strongly urged negotiators not to accept it. And as the specifics of the settlement emerged over the weekend, the skepticism grew. Former FDA head David Kessler demanded changes and said that the terms of the 70-page deal sets too strict limits on the government's ability...
...dirty little secrets of the death penalty, says Franklin Zimring, director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, is the way it "aggravates the suffering of people it's supposed to protect." Because capital punishment presents death as the target, the defendant "wins" for as long as he avoids execution. "We create a recipe for enragement and frustration," Zimring says...
Alabama has been doing doing its bit to hit the target. The state implemented measures to speed up execution of some of the 153 people on death row, even threatening to set execution dates for those who have not completed their appeals. So far this year, the state has put just four men to death, but even with such limited numbers, there is a no-big-deal sense to the proceedings. "We keep it real low-key," says veteran corrections officer Charles Bodiford...
Despite the potential crisis, France's economy is on target to satisfy the Maastricht criteria, including the key requirement that budget deficits not exceed 3% of the gross domestic product by the end of this year. That accomplishment would be due to the spadework of Chirac and Juppe, who have already done much of the hard work of belt tightening, downsizing and preparing to privatize unprofitable state industries. But their efforts to tackle more structural reforms like deregulation, labor- market flexibility and trimming back the welfare state have met with stubborn public resistance...
...national fingerprint headquarters in West Virginia, said the hits would be carried out as part of a "holy war" against the federal government and therefore could not be considered as murder. The FBI documents also state that a militiaman associated with the West Virginia group suggested that members target the Rockefeller and Greenspan families as well. "You must chop off their heads," Larry Matz, an Ohio resident not charged in the bombing plot, allegedly said. Throughout his 31-year political career in West Virginia, Rockefeller, a descendant of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, has labored against an image...