In August last year, amid the throes of a recession, the sixth-largest home builder bought Sanford Homes for $64 million, then spent $600 million for Crossmann Communities in April, expanding into Indiana and Kentucky, all the while spiffing up its Web site to impress its target audience, first-time buyers.
If you can still manage to appear confident (your physical appearance is a HUGE factor in projecting a confident image), you're likely to impress your target guy with your woman-of-the-world status.
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MSN, Bebo and MySpace all meant I could impress my selected targets by name-dropping bands and films, and gathering their admiration the old fashioned way – pretending to like exactly what they liked.
The World Cup will have humiliated him, and his move to Liverpool represents his first target, to impress on the England coach that he is worth a place in the rebuilt national squad.
At some point, go back to the close target, and impress yourself at how well you are able to make tight groupings.
And Cassandra Williams, 56, said that while she usually drove to a Pathmark on 125th Street, she was impressed by the Target groceries.
I'm sure they could contact Guinness if they wanted to and get the record for most expensive USB drive, but the peasants who that record would impress aren't exactly their target demographic!
And they also use their power to attempt to both impress and intimidate those they target.
Shahed Hussain, for example, a now-notorious FBI informant who reportedly earned as much as $100,000 per "assignment," showed up in flashy cars to impress his poor and unemployed targets in Newburgh, New York, offering them a quarter of a million dollars to join him in plotting an attack.
