Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among youth, then, cigarette advertising unduly influences free choice. The tobacco industry maintains that its ads are not focused upon this most vulnerable market. Is it coincidence that cigarette marketers target youth-oriented magazines? Is it coincidence that teenage youth are twice as likely as adults to smoke the most heavily advertised cigarette brands? The data has swamped any lenient prior belief I might have held...
McDavitt shot for the left corner, but missed the target by inches. Cowan also lunged to the left, however, and would have made the diving save had the ball been...
Freberg's parodies continue to gleam even as their subjects fade into history. Arthur Godfrey, the hugely popular star of 1950s radio, was the target of a 1953 Freberg cut, never before released but included in the boxed set. Godfrey may be all but forgotten, but Freberg's gag about his obsequious sidekick, who answers every comment with a knee-jerk, "That's right, Arthur," sums up a century of show-biz sycophancy...
...raised in Maine. "Success has nothing to do with sticking an arrow into the bull's-eye," he says. "It's all about practice--practicing taking the arrow out of the quiver, practicing notching the string. When you have worked at the process for years, the arrow hits the target naturally. Fishing, climbing, selling, it's all the same...
...mark the first time a moonlet had been found around an asteroid. In 1993 the Galileo spacecraft sped past the 20-mile-wide asteroid Ida and spotted a scrap of moon just under a mile wide circling it. But the only way Galileo could detect the tiny target was to fly there across many millions of miles of space and do its exploring up close. Now, thanks to new optics in the CFHT, it's possible to search for moonlets from the comfortable perch of a faraway Earth...