Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast to WTBU, Harvard's WHRB 95.3 FM has a mission and structure that largely target the greater Boston community...
...station that was the target of Army investigators, a recruiter got a prospect pregnant and picked her up at the hospital after an abortion. The investigation also revealed that three recruiters had been dating candidates who had committed to enlist but not yet reported for duty, as well as prospective applicants. The recruiters bought alcohol for prospective recruits, invited them to their apartments "to socialize and drink" and even used them as baby-sitters...
This gave scientists a target on which to focus their research. They began scanning that part of the brain with MRI technology, which uses subtle magnetic changes to capture the internal structure of organs in exquisite detail. To their surprise, they discovered that there was on average 39% to 48% less brain tissue in the affected region of depressed patients. Drevets speculates that the deficit may result from the catastrophic loss of a particular subset of brain cells, which his co-workers are trying to identify...
...policies almost a year after two class-action suits were filed against the company. Mitsubishi sacked Tsuneo Ohinouye, U.S. manufacturing division chair, and Tohei Takeuchi, president of U.S. auto sales, for not ensuring that recommended changes took place at the company's Normal, Illinois plant. The factory is the target of two still-pending suits charging that hundreds of female assembly line workers were groped, fondled and subjected to other harassment. But TIME's Bill McWhirter notes the move is mostly cosmetic since it doesn't address the problem at the plant level. "All we've seen is a whole...
DENVER: A key government witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial told jurors that Timothy McVeigh sat in her living room several months before the attack and described his plan to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah building. "He said it was an easy target," recalled Lori Fortier, the wife of McVeigh's close friend Michael Fortier. Mrs. Fortier said that during the conversation, which took place in October 1994 in the Fortier's Arizona mobile home, McVeigh drew a diagram, using soup cans to illustrate how he planned to bundle the bomb in a shaped triangular charge for maximum...