Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students were not the only ones struggling for change at Harvard. The Nixon administration, anxious to suppress student uprisings, passed a series of bills designed to stop the flow of aid to campuses with a history of radical activities. Harvard, with its recent history of political demonstration, was one target...
...place Jackson repeatedly visited to report this week's cover story on the largest software manufacturer and its billionaire chairman Bill Gates. Jackson considers Gates the Henry Ford of the information age, a dominant figure both respected and feared. "The very exuberance and competitiveness that make Bill Gates a target for his enemies," says Jackson, "are also the reasons for his astonishing success...
Using a strategy Arthur calls "target, leverage, link and lock," Microsoft proceeded to convert dos users to Windows users, Windows users to Word users and so on down the product line. Microsoft's customers, of course, were free to switch to WordPerfect for Windows or Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows or any other competing products. But by the time those programs were ready, Microsoft already owned the markets. "You could argue," says Arthur, "that Microsoft is the product of clever strategy, mediocre technology and a hell of a lot of increasing returns...
...expect a Democrat to act in defense of traditional Democratic constituencies. But Clinton's attachment to the status quo extends even to a defense of farm subsidies. Republicans, it is reputed, like to target women and children but would never go after agricultural fat cats. Well, the g.o.p. has proposed an $8 billion cut in farm subsidies. Clinton responded with a ringing attack on those who would "turn and walk away from the farmers of this country in the name of cutting spending...
...Modjeski, was tackled by a Secret Service agent; both men were wounded by the gunfire of a second agent. Modjeski, an unemployed onetime psychology student, was charged with felony assault and firearms violations. Officials said the President was never in any danger and may not have even been a target. Modjeski, they indicated, appeared to be psychologically troubled. Three days later, another man, Andrew Jopling, jumped the fence near the mansion's tourist entrance and was immediately arrested...