At the same time, advertisers were hungering for ever-more-specific target audiences -- just what Petersen offered.
Steals.com is really four websites that each target very specific women-dominated niches: BabySteals.com, KidSteals.com, ScrapbookSteals.com, and SheSteals.
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But he said denial-of-service attacks target specific Web sites.
While Leeb is confident about the long-term outlook for energy prices, he will not set a specific short-term price target.
Precision advertising, giving marketers the ability to hyper-target their ads to very specific business demographics across the LinkedIn network.
"This naturally-occurring cholesterol offers a very specific target for the design of safer drugs that could treat stomach ulcers and, long-term, prevent stomach cancer linked with H.pylori, " said Dr Minoru Fukuda, who led the study.
By stringing together thousands of these so-called droplets (which measure about 50 microns across) using a custom-built 3D printer, the Oxford team believes it has engineered a "new type of material" that could eventually be used to ferry drugs throughout our internal systems to a specific target site, fill-in for damaged tissues or even mimic neural pathways via specially printed protein pores.
The viruses used to deliver the light-sensitive proteins can be engineered to target very specific clusters of brain cells.
Because of his work, Genentech knew to give the drug only to those patients with elevated HER-2, a much more specific target.
The G-7 nations also said they will not target specific currency exchange rates.
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Buffett set a specific price-to-book-value target for the buybacks, saying Berkshire ( NYSE: BRK-B) would buy back its own shares but only at prices up to a 10% premium over the then-current book value of Berkshire shares.
Prof Paul Gately, a specialist in childhood obesity at Leeds Metropolitan University, said a tool like this would help the NHS target specific people at risk rather than the "scattergun one-size-fits-all approach, which we know does not work".
The short-stay care wards like the Brampton ward at NGH will target specific care for each patient, the trust said.
Others, such as target-date retirement funds and 529 college-savings-plan funds, are managed with a specific date in mind and grow more conservative as that date approaches.
"It is very difficult to assess how well the government is progressing toward its target of reducing net-migration to the 'tens of thousands', or to evaluate the effects of specific policy changes, " says Dr Martin Ruhs, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford.
Tustin Red Cobras head coach Darren Crawford and assistant coach Richard Bowman, whose powerhouse squad went undefeated during the 2011 regular season, told their team to target specific players on the youth football teams from Yorba Linda, Santa Margarita and San Bernardino, said then-assistant coach John Zanelli and three players interviewed by the Register.
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