Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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China nearly scotched the mission when it ordered them to land at an airfield in Lhasa, Tibet, Tuesday, but the balloon overshot the target and couldn't come down anywhere else in the mountainous region. An appeal by British prime minister Tony Blair finally secured them the right to overfly northern China, the last geopolitical hurdle on their round-the-world flight. But the threat of ice buildup forced ICO Global to use more fuel than anticipated to stay above the Himalayan clouds, and with sluggish winds pushing them along at 50 mph -- less than half the speed needed...
...some help in spotting the good buys. Goldman Sachs has set up a new mergers- and-acquisitions team in Singapore to be headed by Richard Gnodde, one of its top specialists. Jon Corzine, co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, adds that the firm is planning to start a "recovery fund" targeted chiefly at Asia. Goldman's Asia president, Philip Murphy, indicates a major target will be consumer goods, which many others also consider an attractive field for U.S. investment. One reason is that some Asian companies are reorganizing their countries' chaotic distribution systems, replacing mom-and-pop stores with modern networks...
...operation would produce clues that led to another. For example, a CIA analyst perusing a slip of paper scooped up in one raid realized that scribbled on it was part of a phone number for a bin Laden cell in another country. That cell became the next target and yielded another round of evidence...
...does Hoffa propose to go where Congress wouldn't? Sources close to Hoffa say his first act as president-elect was to give the go-ahead for a multimillion-dollar civil-racketeering suit against, among others, the D.N.C. The suit would primarily target disgraced former Teamsters president RON CAREY and other Teamsters officials for allegedly embezzling nearly $1 million in cash from the union. But it would also cite top Democratic fund raisers, including TERRENCE MCAULIFFE, who was recently appointed chief fund raiser for Al Gore. A federal probe into Carey's 1996 election as union president found that...
...statute drew bitter criticism early on. The first five independent counsels brought no charges against the subjects they were pursuing, but one target, former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, was fuming at the end of a long legal journey in which he was cleared. "Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?" he famously said when he was acquitted of other larceny and fraud charges that had forced him out of office. Another Reagan Administration official investigated (and eventually cleared) in a separate probe, Assistant Attorney General Theodore Olson, battled the law's constitutionality...