Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thomas O'Brien, Harvard's former vice presidentfor finance and architect of its current savingsystem, calls the new payout estimate "verymodest," adding that most schools now target for a5 percent payout...
...Career Forum has become an easy target for students who are eager for more information and support in seeking positions outside of banking and consulting. However, the lack of representation at the fair by non-profit organizations has less to do with callousness on the part of the Office of Career Services (OCS) and everything to do with the structure of the non-profit world...
What, for example, does he think about his former label? "[Mercury] had a terrible distribution problem," he says. "I've had humongously huge hit records, and I'd walk into like the local Target and--no stock." Nor is he fond of Jay Leno's Tonight Show: "I was on that show once and it was like, 'Ahhhh! This is brain damage!'" And like many of the ordinary folks who make up his fan base, he's fed up with the situation in Washington. "I don't understand how they got those [Clinton grand jury] tapes on TV," he complains...
...said that while corporate welfare is a financial boon to some companies, it is unfair to companies that do not receive equal public tax dollars. But this misses the target. The greatest flaw is that for every dollar given by local and federal governments to coddle rich corporations, there is one less dollar to support programs for workers or alleviate the plight of America's poor. The political system is part of the problem, but America's economic system, based on competition for profit and primarily serving the needs of the wealthy, dictates the behavior of both the politicians...
...Saddam operation would require help, especially the right to set up military bases, from Iraq's neighbors, including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Like Gulf War I, Gulf War II would begin with a strategic air campaign that would target all the tools that help Saddam keep his grip on power--and Saddam as well. If he survived the aerial onslaught, the land campaign would try to pin him and his loyalists down in greater Baghdad. As the U.S. Army tightened its noose around Saddam, he'd be tempted to unleash whatever nuclear, chemical and biological weapons he has squirreled...