11.   Cigarette makers are expected to fight efforts to block foreign sales because tobacco companies are targeting foreign markets as U.S. smoking rates continue to decline.

12.   Chinese companies have targeted industries Beijing wants to build up, such as infrastructure or banking.

13.   Cottrell said the pubs being acquired are in or near areas in which Enterprise is doing business or in new areas that the pub company had targeted for expansion.

14.   Credit card companies are targeting the college-bound.

15.   Gates, speaking at the Bloomberg Forum, said the company is targeting smaller, closely held real estate companies in its home market of Chicago.

16.   He said the company is targeting evening and weekend customers instead of the lunch and shopping crowd it attracts at many of its mall locations.

17.   His company is targeting traditional distributors, which acts as a middleman between software makers and retail stores.

18.   In addition, those companies are increasingly targeting businesses, which may order hundreds or even thousands of products at a time, over individuals.

19.   In addition, the merged company will target the market for sophisticated set-top boxes that will add Internet access and gaming features to standard TV sets.

20.   In metro Atlanta, consumer advocates say some companies now regularly target homeowners who are elderly, not financially sophisticated or have bad credit.