Meanwhile, design and performance goals became moving targets that the contractors regularly changed.

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Most of these things are moving targets, not easily nailed down or able to be clearly addressed because of their complexity.

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However, the Missile Defense Agency has demonstrated over and over again that the right combination of sensors, processors and rockets can reliably achieve kinetic kill of fast moving ballistic targets.

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That's significant because as important as the vice presidential pick actually is, the greater vices with which we must contend in contemporary politics are the tendency to demonize our opponents and to chase after the rapidly moving but ephemeral targets set by the social-networking shouting match.

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In effect, moving to nominal GDP targets would send a signal that the Bank was determined to get back the nominal growth in the economy that has been lost, even if it is at the cost of pushing inflation above 2% for a sustained period of time.

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B2B spin-out, the executives of such firms are easy targets for fast-moving e-business software providers such as Commerce One (the aerospace victor), Oracle and Ariba, which often propose the deal and promise to do most of the hard work.

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The 5-year targets look tough but schools are moving in the right direction.

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In fact, they will be moving at four or five miles per second as they approach their targets.

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So we know that moving forward it's going to be necessary if we're going to meet those targets for some changes to take place among those countries.

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