In the latest effort to curb property prices, Beijing required municipal and state governments to establish new home price control targets based on economic growth and increases in disposable income.
Although those targets were rarely met, Policy Exchange says councils have used their new control over planning to drastically cut their own homebuilding targets.
Once they get Umm Qasr, they will have control of those key strategic and economic targets.
As in May, the IMF is quite clear that the government was right, in 2010, to set out clear targets for getting borrowing under control.
We will work with doctors, nurses, teachers and other professionals because we recognise that they want to be able to respond to the individual needs and choices of their patients and pupils, but central targets and top-down control are preventing them from doing so.
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Potential targets will multiply as computers assume greater control over ever more operations in our society, from traffic management to intelligent buildings to robotic surgery.
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Wellstone was considered one of the Democrats' most endangered incumbents and had been one of the GOP's major targets in its quest to take back control of the Senate.
They have surrendered control of the currency to an independent central bank that targets inflation, not the exchange rate.
David Simmonds, representing the Local Government Association, cautioned that local authorities had diminishing amounts of direct control over schools - because of central government directives and targets and the shift towards academies.
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The sorts of computer systems it enters are those that control critical infrastructures like power plants, refineries and other industrial targets.
Court documents suggest that Mr Grasso himself had a great deal of control over the structure of his incentive package, including performance targets (which he easily exceeded).
It's why marketers still talk about customers as "targets" they can "acquire, " "control, " "manage" and "lock in, " as if they were cattle.
White House officials wouldn't lay out their targets for the treaty with Russia, but the Arms Control Association's Mr. Kimball said deployed nuclear weapons in each country could be reduced by 30% to 40% from the current limit of 2, 200.
The government has handed control of interest rates to the Bank of England and climate-change targets to a committee of experts.
The budget on March 24th promised more funding, especially for smaller businesses, and higher targets for lending by the banks that are partly under state control.
As for the regions, officials waver between severity (threatening to grab financial control from the worst offenders) and claims that they can meet their deficit targets without coercion.
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They consider this to be effectively handing control over to managers who themselves are under pressure to meet ambitious waiting list targets and the fear is that those could become unrealistic goals as a general election approaches.
This provides soldiers better control of their devices and ensures they keep their hands on their weapons and their eyes on their targets.
"This would put internal credit creation back under the control of the state, " they say, even if it only took the form of SME lending targets, credit easing and some infrastructure programmes.
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