He said bosses were "not interested in patient safety" and instructed him to hit the targets "whatever the demand".
He said house building was at about 20% the rate that it was 12 months ago, making it "extremely difficult" to hit the targets.
As you can see, there is scope for the banks to hit the targets without fulfilling the spirit of the Merlin agreement, which was to provide credit to where it is needed most.
This is scored as a success, even though it may largely reflect the fact that hospital staff have learnt how to hit the targets, just as teachers learn how to teach to the test.
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But it is worth saying that if the banks hit their lending targets for the second quarter of the year - and I am told they are very likely to hit those targets - the significance of that achievement will be hard to gauge.
It suggests that perhaps a few percent of the time, as we do in leukemia, do we have the targeted drugs to hit the key targets that will put the problem in remission for years.
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The chief medical officer said people could hit their daily targets over the course of each day.
The higher cost of financing its debt will hit the government's deficit targets, another critical component of the disinflation programme.
But Employment Minister Chris Grayling said Labour had failed to get people into work, had a "terrible" record on youth unemployment, had shrunk the manufacturing sector, never hit its targets on apprenticeships and left behind the biggest deficit in UK peacetime history.
Even companies that hit their targets for the quarter, however, may take the opportunity to jawbone expectations lower once the numbers are out.
Penketh High School head teacher Jeff Hughes had promised to perform the dance at his school leavers' assembly if the pupils hit their targets.
Dr Blinder said the complex results meant it was not a "straightforward slam-dunk" that public attitudes would significantly change if the government hit its targets.
To hit his targets, the agent in Uttan Gaon must process each of the residents, who perch in turn on a red plastic chair, in 12 minutes or less.
What that means is that most of the banks have the ability to hit their small business lending targets by increasing the borrowing limits of their existing reliable customers, whether or not those customers have demanded or want an increased overdraft.
Col Thierry Burkhard said the "fairly significant" targets had been hit in the Aguelhok mountains near the Algerian border, according to the AFP news agency.
Now RBS has failed to hit the so-called "stretch" targets for lending to small businesses, agreed with the Treasury in Project Merlin, by a modest margin.
The full amounts in either year won't be paid to Murdoch unless the companies hit certain financial targets.
The trends are clear: Starving medical innovation to hit short-term fiscal targets will only make the next round of budget talks that much harder.
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But, interestingly, Stephen Hester has conceded - I think for the first time - that it will take longer than the promised five years for RBS to hit new targets for what he calls "value drivers", which are the profit that the bank earns relative to its equity capital, and its costs relative to income.
When the missiles were fired, they hit the decoys and the B-1s went on to bomb their targets.
In a culture driven by targets, some health professionals argue that by trying to hit those targets we are missing the point.
The force has yet to announce if jobs will go in order to hit targets of 4% annual savings, but the police federation said losses were inevitable.
So whereas we may have had the impression that this was sort of a quick and dirty operation, this is something that has been in the planning stages for a long time, just waiting for the appropriate moment where the targets could be hit.
European equities had a decent week after the Eurogroup announced it was giving Greece a few more years to hit its budget and debt targets and that it would receive the next tranche of bailout money.
Failure to hit ambulance targets has been discussed by the service and NHS directors.
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East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) has again failed to hit government targets for emergency call responses, the latest monthly figures revealed.
Ultimately they are on the hook for revenues and if managing the customer experience will help them hit their targets, then roles and responsibilities be damned.
Most analysts don't expect North Korea to stage an attack on the U.S. or its allies and it isn't thought to have the missile technology to hit long-range targets.
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