Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since it has been pulled out of the U.S. market--along with the Renault, the Fiat, the Alfa Romeo and the Yugo--there's just no one left to really make fun of on our show... [T]he arrogance of the French makes them such a delightful target...
...involved? You could buy the perceived targets, hoping for a takeover at a fat premium. But if no deal surfaces, you're sunk. Besides, the latest deals have been "mergers of equals," which allow two banks of similar size to hook up without one paying a big premium for the other. Shareholders still get a (more modest) pop, but in both stocks, not just the target's. So you can do well owning the buying bank--say, a NationsBank, First Union or Chase Manhattan. In many cases, that will be the better long-term investment anyway. But I'd also...
...principal fund raisers, Beverly Reed, an unemployed single mother of five, finds herself the target of the Illinois attorney general's office over her handling of $310,000 she collected on the girl's behalf. According to depositions taken in connection with the investigation, Reed spent more than $50,000 for personal use, including rent, utility bills, a computer, babysitters for her children and payments to friends and family. Authorities contend that only about $1,400 has gone to Girl X or her family. The girl, who is blind, cannot speak and uses a wheelchair, lives in a state...
...they were tied to stakes with black hoods over their heads. Some of the 18 other executions in provincial towns were attended by children -- high school students in some towns were even given the day off to attend. Perhaps the most macabre detail of the spectacle was the black target placed on the chest of each condemned person -- their executioners, after all, fired from less than a yard away...
...screen sweeps through the air, it provides a moving target for the laser beams, allowing Favarola to project light into half-a-million chunks of three-dimensional space called "voxels" rather than the flat "pixels" on a television or computer screen...