Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choices were almost too rich to pick from, and if you believe the Gore folks, all were off target. While each man played some part in getting the Vice President to bring Coelho aboard, Gore aides say the pivotal role belonged to the one person no one suspected--Gore's wife Tipper. Several campaign aides described Tipper as the godmother of the shuffle, the biggest fan of the deal. One added that Tipper, far more than the half-dozen bickering guys in Gore's inner circle, "knew there had to be some help in here. Somebody was needed to knock...
...still coming in to his ZIP code. Last week Elizabeth Dole threw a tomato. Though she did not mention Bush by name, the former Cabinet secretary launched a verbal missile in the post-Littleton gun-control debate, declaring that it was "wrong to let people carry concealed weapons." Her target was obvious. Bush, who had signed a 1995 law allowing Texans to tuck registered handguns into their purses and coat pockets, fired back through a spokesman on the same day. Texans were now safer, came the riposte, "particularly women who work late hours or who travel...
...supporters of the bill maintain their purpose is to emphasize the traditional family, not to target homosexuals...
...fellowships, administered by the New Jersey-based Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (WWNFF), are awarded to students beginning doctoral work in the humanities in the fall. The fellowships target students who want to teach and have a broad interest in learning...
...reason is that Paxil, Prozac, Luvox and the others all target the same brain chemical, called serotonin, which seems to govern mood. Too little serotonin, and patients tend to feel negative about themselves and the world around them in one way or another. How that dissatisfaction manifests itself--clinical depression, anxiety, phobias, obsessions, even eating disorders--depends on a complex web of factors that researchers have yet to unravel. But they do know that drugs that keep serotonin from being reabsorbed too quickly into the nerve cells--the so-called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs--tend to alleviate these...