Word: targetedly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Last week's raids help answer that question. They serve to remind the Russians of a very nasty reality about wars in Chechnya. Capturing a town does not make you the victor. It makes you the target...
...attempts to score on the Internet (in which I and several of my Time Inc. bosses have participated) have foundered on the inability of the various divisions to work collaboratively and on the relentless bottom-line pressure that discouraged investment in the distant future when there was a quarterly target to meet...
...week. In the nobody-knows-anything world of Wall Street, one analyst was predicting a 50% increase in AOL's stock price between now and next fall when the deal is expected to close, another was predicting a continuing slump, a third meaninglessly narrowed the medium-term price target to "between $55 and $90," and the last little analyst cried all the way home. "The Street has no historical reference," says one of the dealmakers...
...target of the virtual stickup was a website known as CD Universe, which sells music and DVD movies online. Doing business on the Net since 1996, CD Universe had served more than 300,000 customers--which translates to roughly 300,000 credit-card numbers salted away in its electronic files. Last month the site's parent company, eUniverse, based in Wallingford, Conn., was contacted by someone identifying himself as "Maxus," a 19-year-old Russian who claimed to have hacked into those files and filched those numbers. The FBI has since asked the company not to reveal whether that communication...
...mock warhead deployed by a missile fired in California. Although the system managed to destroy a mock warhead last October, it was later reported to have been a lucky accident after the interceptor missile had locked on to a decoy balloon that drifted close to the target. "I call the Pentagon all the time and sometimes they can?t transfer my calls to the right place," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "So how are they going to manage to shoot down a missile with a missile? This is not a criticism; simply an acknowledgment of the tremendous technological challenge...