Word: targetting
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Hundreds of mutual funds target specific countries and regions. Most of them are open-end funds, meaning you can buy and sell anytime at a price that perfectly reflects the underlying value of the stocks in the funds' portfolios. In smaller numbers there are closed-end "country funds," whose shares trade freely on the New York and other stock exchanges. Closed-end fund prices are governed purely by supply and demand, so they frequently trade above or below the underlying value of the stocks in the portfolios. Today the average country fund trades at a discount of 15%. Now, that...
Just as he was finding his target, Dole abandoned the drug message and switched to the charge that Clinton was a "spend-and-tax liberal." The Clintonites were relieved. "With the drug spots," says Penn, "Dole was getting some traction by painting Clinton as a social liberal. The notion that he was an economic liberal was less effective because the economy is sound...
...efforts were instrumental in defeating sophomore Blute in Massachusetts and several G.O.P. freshmen, including David Funderburk, a disciple of Senator Jesse Helms (who held his own seat) in North Carolina. In other districts, however, AFL-CIO spending backfired by becoming a major issue. The union federation's No. 1 target in the whole country was Arizona's John David Hayworth Jr., who is outsize in other ways also (he is 6 ft. 5 in. and 285 lb., with a voice and swagger to match). J.D., as he loves to be called, fired back by denouncing the "union bosses" for trying...
...battering ram," remembers another member of the group. She described her role at the time as being "everywhere" in the campaign--"everywhere there's a weak link." Her fierce devotion to her father, her closeness to Chubais and her continuing intolerance of weak links have made her a favorite target for sniping. So much sniping, in fact, that her mother came to her defense in a recent TV appearance. "They used to attack the President," Naina Yeltsin said; "now they attack Tatyana." Hatred is always a telling measure of power...
...target audience for both "Facts and Figures" and "The Harvard Guide" is the community outside of Harvard--tourists, fellows and employees new to Harvard. Full of maps, history and old lore, the Guide is meant to show a more accessible, personal side to Harvard