Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search is efficient, even brutal. If Shemmer can't deduce what a company's Web address might be, it's history. "That's it," he says. "I might ask someone, but..." One target's Web site is unattractive and poorly designed, lacking basic information about management and investors. Shemmer sends them a curt e-mail telling them to shape up, then moves on. With practice, the culling goes quickly, Shemmer says. "There's a ton of shitty companies out there. It's like 80-20." Once he identifies a likely prospect, Shemmer places a call to the CEO for more...
...kaleidoscope of left-wing groups. "The WTO has brought about a harmonic convergence," said John Sellers, director of the Ruckus Society, as he trained a group of Berkeley students for civil disobedience last month. Forest activists, who have polished their skills blocking the logging of redwoods, will target U.S. efforts to slash worldwide tariffs on paper and pulp products...
...more than a dozen communities, from Los Angeles to Miami, have begun to target ATM surcharges. The most threatening to banks is New York City, where city council speaker Peter Vallone plans to unveil a proposal next month that would restrict ATM fees in the nation's financial capital. In Congress, Representative Bernard Sanders, a Vermont independent, has introduced federal anti-surcharge legislation. Even the Defense Department has joined the offensive: it wants to ban the fees from ATMs on military bases...
Maybe better to say potential torrent. Past budget forecasts have been wildly off-target. As recently as 1996, the Clinton Administration predicted deficits of $200 billion or more each year as far as the eye could see. So, can today's great expectations be trusted? Absolutely, said a majority of members at a special session of TIME's Board of Economists, which met recently in Washington to debate the budgetary outlook. For this occasion the board included some of the country's most important public officials as well as economists. They split along party lines on what to do with...
...unaware of being watched. But if you surf the net half an hour a day, chances are there's an online profile of you--not the you who has a name, Social Security number and address but a cyber you who reflects your online behaviors and can help marketers target ads especially for you. Already, some of the ads you see when you hit sites like Yahoo or Lycos are there because you are. Other visitors are getting different ads that cater to their online profiles...