Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outsiders, however, haven't seen it quite the same way. Jessica Mitford, author of The American Way of Death, the 1963 blockbuster that first disinterred the scandalous practices of the funeral industry, told TIME shortly before her death last summer that she planned to target the deceptive practices of consolidators in a revision of her book, which she jokingly titled Death Warmed Over (to be published by Knopf). "You think of dear old Mr. Johnson, an honest old chap that your family has dealt with over the years, and so you go to Johnson's, and it turns...
Madras said she thinks the new compounds will do more than just bind to the target; they will actually affect the function as well...
Previous assumptions operated under the theory that the nitrogen atom forms a strong ionic bond with a counterion on the brain's target molecule...
Clinton didn't comment specifically on the new developments while on vacation, but he did try self-pity as a general defense. He even likened himself to Richard Jewell, who was the chief target in the Olympic-bombing investigation. "One of the things I would urge you to do, remembering what happened to Mr. Jewell in Atlanta, remembering what has happened to so many of the accusations that over the past four years have been made against me that turned out to be totally baseless...
Rape, in particular, is now recognized as a war crime or--from a more chilling perspective--a tactic of war. Maybe it's more fun for the perpetrators than, say, lobbing artillery shells at some remote and impersonal target. But this doesn't mean rape can be seen as just another lighthearted form of R. and R. because the intent is still to defeat the other side. As the Bosnian Serbs understood so well, the best way to get the enemy steamed was to put their wives to work as latter-day comfort women...