Word: targetting
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...reduce the percentage of overweight Americans from 25% to 20% by the turn of the century. It was, for the Bush Administration, an unusually activist experiment in preventive medicine, with the added purpose of helping curb health costs. Now the U.S. is not only unlikely to meet that target, says Robert Kuczmarski, lead author of the big CDC study, "but it's going in the opposite direction." Just when the country needs to reduce its health-care bills, its eating habits may be pushing costs higher...
...definition, revolutions revolt against something. Newt's target is the "current welfare state," which owes its shape to Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Thirty years ago to the day of Gingrich's speech last week, L.B.J. urged Congress to pass Medicare, one of the many programs he promised would "eliminate poverty from the land." They haven't, of course, and that's what spurs the G.O.P. critique. Between 1965 and 1992, the gross national product grew 53.2%. Yet 38 million Americans (including 14.6 million children, or 1 of every 5 kids) still live in poverty -- a higher percentage...
...today came within yards of seizing the symbolic presidential palace in the Chechen capital. Chechen rebels have pressed the defense of the city even though their president on Wednesday publicly admitted they were outmatched militarily. Moscow news reports said Russian forces now occupy the Chechen government headquarters, a "key target" across the street from the palace. TIME correspondent Ann Simmons, reporting from Moscow, says many Russian officials believe the inevitable fall of Grozny will merely spark a more fragmented guerrilla war as rebels dig in at camps in the Caucasian mountains: "Some have been saying, look out for terrorist attacks...
...street-fighting tactics that worked so well for him as a backbencher can look unseemly when they are tried by the Speaker of the House. And the vast, multimillion-dollar network of political and charitable organizations that he has built to spread his gospel could be a difficult target to defend. All of them draw their financial support from overlapping groups of business executives and other wealthy supporters whose identities Gingrich has resisted disclosing until recently. The donors range from restaurant and bar operators to the owners of vast mail-order operations. They will now be looking to the Republican...
...casualties. All 47 children escaped death by hiding in a basement bomb shelter. Chechen officials claim that 200 people have died in the fighting.Despite the continued ferocity of the attack and the fact that it's reminiscent of the long and bloody Afghanistan conflict, Yeltsin has not been the target of any major public protest, says Zarakhovich. Why? "Here people are so used to bloodshed and their leaders not knowing what they are doing that they have become numb," he says. Still, public opposition may be the least of the Yeltsin's problems. After Russians capture Grozny, they're likely...