Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps. The Tomahawks' sophisticated systems make them ideal for such pinpoint attacks. Their onboard computers are programmed with highly detailed radar maps to the target, and they coordinate with satellites to make sure the missiles are in the right place. But they are not good at everything. They can knock out office buildings and other unhardened structures, but because their warhead contains just 1,000 lbs. of high explosive, they do not pack enough punch to take out bunkers, caves or fortified buildings...
Toys "R" Us faces quickening competition from such all-purpose discount stores as Wal-Mart and Target. Its bloated inventory system costs hundreds of millions of dollars each year. It must somehow cut costs while remodeling stores and bolstering employee training and service. And Toys "R" Us managers can only pray, as they do each fall but even more so this year, that among the new toys they have bought by the trainload are a few hits--the Tickle Me Elmos and Power Rangers--that will fill parking lots with minivans...
...shopping season that is just starting, Toys "R" Us will have to fight harder than ever for its slice of the profit. Wal-Mart's share of the $35 billion toy-retailing industry has grown from 10% in 1990 to 16% this year; over the same period Target's share has more than doubled, to 7%. The discount stores use toys as "traffic builders," attracting families with low prices on popular toys and then making higher profits on such items as clothing and appliances. "Wal-Mart and Target carry only the 50 or 100 hottest toys," says David Miller, president...
...other Toys "R" Us stores, while many customers praise the selection of games and toys, several complain about service and, surprisingly, prices. Third-grader Kirby Turnage IV, shopping in Pensacola, Fla., says that "my brother and sisters like Toys 'R' Us better, but I keep telling them Target is better. The prices are better." His father, Kirby Turnage III, observes that the Toys "R" Us lines are too long and that there is a "lack of customer service." And Denver Toys "R" Us shopper Tonya Howard says, "The people here have an attitude...
Home Depot is the biggest target yet for RAN, which has a staff of 25 and a budget of $2 million. But Suzanne Apple, Home Depot's community-affairs director, says the activists are expecting too much, too fast. "We are committed to the environment," she says. "We have been encouraging our vendors to tell us the source of their lumber. But we have 5,000 suppliers and over 50,000 products. It doesn't happen overnight." Surely not. But if it happens at all, asserts the combative Hayes, it will be because Home Depot and other companies get "smacked...