• Meet the numbers, keep your job.

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  • African countries are seeing how sound governance, economic and political stability and pro-market economic policies are producing a new entrepreneurial class eager to create new industries and services to meet the needs of growing numbers emerging from poverty.

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  • He will no doubt try to shift attention away from the job numbers' failure to meet expectations, and towards the 1.5m jobs that have been created in 11 straight months of employment growth (as well as the latest unemployment figure: the rate fell in July, from 5.6% to 5.5%).

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  • The last Labour government set itself a target of ending child poverty by 2020 but failed to meet its goal of halving the numbers by 2010-11.

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  • Stay tuned for some comprehensive battery tests, but our initial impression is that the only way to meet Apple's talk time numbers is by keeping use of the display to a bare minimum.

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  • Usually if the parliament doesn't meet, it's because they don't have the numbers.

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  • With such a massive overrun in pay, the only way to meet the cash spending plans was to cut numbers instead.

    BBC: Hard times for Mr Osborne

  • Back-up generators are only a small part of existing demand response programs and those that do participate must meet environmental standards and have limitations placed on the numbers of hours they may operate per year.

    FORBES: Connect

  • To meet both these conditions, and to make the numbers add up, the demands made of those with deposits under 100, 000 euros - those who had been assured that their money was safe - were more severe than anyone had expected.

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  • They meet daily to track the traffic and pore over sales numbers.

    FORBES: Digital denim

  • The numbers have soared in recent years to meet the demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine, especially in China and Vietnam, where they are thought to have powerful healing properties.

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  • In an interview with the BBC, Marta Andreasen - who was ditched from her post as chief accountant at the European Commission in May - says the Commission's numbers fail even to meet minimum accounting standards.

    BBC: EU hit by accounting allegations

  • But history shows a pattern: when attractions prove too expensive to maintain, score low on guest approval, lose sponsorship or have difficulty churning through high numbers of visitors, they are likely to meet the wrecking ball.

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  • It means boosting the number -- the numbers of quality teachers who can help our special education and English language learners meet high standards -- and you've done that here at Wright, so congratulations on that. (Applause.) It means improving instruction in science, technology, reading, math, and ensuring that more women and people of color are doing well in those subjects. (Applause.) So that's the second -- the second factor.

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  • In both Russia and Kyrgyzstan, large numbers of abandoned children live in orphanages, and domestic adoptions are not sufficient to meet the needs.

    WSJ: For 5 years, US families pursue Kyrgyz adoptions

  • Retail numbers from the Commerce Department Wednesday show that consumers have found more spending momentum to meet rising commodity and materials costs that are already being passed directly to consumers, with food prices, apparel, and most noticeably gasoline prices all rising in the first quarter of 2011.

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  • These numbers could have been even bigger except Apple can not build the products fast enough to meet demands.

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  • Udacity also is working with the California state university system on challenges such as the large numbers of students who need to retake classes they have flunked, in order to meet graduation requirements.

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  • U.S. carmakers complain they now have to sell large numbers of money-losing smaller vehicles in order to sell high-profit larger vehicles and meet the overall fuel economy average.

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  • And secondary school teacher Craig Macartney, from Suffolk, said he had noted that increasing numbers of children from middle to lower income households were missing school trips as families struggled to meet the basic cost of living.

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  • "Maternity services must be designed to meet needs without compromising on safety, yet Sands is already hearing alarming stories of cuts to maternity services, when the numbers of babies dying is still not being properly addressed, " said research manager Janet Scott.

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