Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boutros-Ghali began his speech with a personal appeal to curb terrorism, recalling the assassination of his grandfather, who was prime minister of Egypt. "In recent years, my homeland Egypt has been the target of terrorists," he said. "They seek to intimidate the population. They seek to destroy the tourist industry. They care nothing for the innocent lives they destroy...
...college in any conventional sense and need not have the bureaucratic structure of one. It should respond to its diminished role not by growing its expensive institutional structure, but rather by phasing much of it out, and by expanding the offerings that students find useful. Programs which target the interests of students by providing experiences distinct from those offered at Harvard should receive the bulk of Radcliffe's funding. The mentor program, the Lyman Common Room and the externship program are prominent examples...
Third, it's expensive: the funds for those well-paid administrators engaging in the dubious practice of overseeing their adversaries' representation have to come from somewhere, and the most likely target is student tuition dollars. (Last time I checked, there were no restricted funds for bureaucrats who represent both sides in Harvard's labor disputes...
...feel comfortable wearing the above ensemble. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons dispensed entirely with the notion of figure enhancement and inserted padding, above, that only a Quasimodel could love. The designer said her aim was to "create clothes without any reference to anything existing." She's right on target. Meanwhile the big couture houses seem to be getting a taste for the wacky. Givenchy has hired British enfant terrible Alexander McQueen, 27, the son of a taxi driver, who's most famous for his "bumster" pants--like hipsters, but much lower...
...expansion--leveraging its massive technology infrastructure to obtain new revenues via benefit plans, human-resources-administration duties and payrolls--raise concerns about the company's focus and privacy issues? Fidelity's access to personal information in these areas would no doubt give the firm a leading edge on target marketing and family life-style offerings. The strategy is brilliant in keeping Fidelity revenues smooth, but it scares me to death. George Orwell's only flaws in prediction were in the timing and the number of Big Brothers we will have in this brave new world of electronic commerce. RICHARD CARREAU...