What we've seen, as I've been pushing our agencies and administration to take a hard look at this, is exactly what Mark just said, that in any area there's a whole bunch of underbrush that can be cleared out and made much more efficient, while still achieving the objectives of public health, welfare, environmental, and so forth.
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"The reality is that African-American males are still disproportionately channelled into the criminal justice system and they are still not achieving, or able to have the same educational success as their peers of other races and other ethnicities, " she says.
At the top of every CEO agenda is growth but with the economy still sputtering, achieving it is challenging.
But the world is still far from achieving the Education for All goals.
First and foremost, the proposed rule would push already stratospheric electricity prices still higher without achieving any countervailing public benefit.
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Despite the Beck revival, it is still far from achieving that.
But while the scale of improvements in child survival is immense, globally we are still far short of achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 to reduce child mortality by two-thirds.
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Still, the goal of achieving a 20% reduction in energy intensity by 2010 seems a long way off.
Significant inequalities based on gender, ethnicity, income, language or disabilities are still a major barrier to achieving universal primary education.
"While the customer experience is much improved we still need to work on achieving consistency across all of our stores, and at an acceptable cost, " Mr King said.
While current screens have a great gee-whiz feel, they are still a far cry from achieving the effect demanded of most three-dimensional researchers: a realistic, moving hologram like the one of Princess Leia projected from a lens inside R2D2 in Star Wars.
And so the question is, is there a way of achieving simplification, but still having some element of progressivity and some element of fairness in the tax system?
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Separate figures showed that Japan's core consumer price index fell 0.4% in April from a year earlier, indicating that the Bank of Japan is still far from its goal of achieving steady 2% price growth to overcome years of deflationary pressures.
The new disc finds Tapes n Tapes achieving a more cohesive but still resolutely lo-fi sound.
Thus, the United States still has some distance to go before achieving this heightened standard of basic education.
If we were five minutes away from achieving a deal it would still be the responsible thing to do.
Still, nine of them are "high achieving, " working above grade level in some subjects.
Raising public awareness of any issue is not an easy undertaking and achieving lasting behavioural change is harder still.
It's no secret that we still have a long way to go before achieving gender equity in the fields collectively known as STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Still, the current moment may be the right one for achieving fundamental change.
And while we still have a long way to go, we have made meaningful progress toward achieving that goal.
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She said it announced a waste review last summer that still had not been published and added the Conservatives had abandoned any hope of achieving a "zero waste" Britain.
While they are achieving many of the goals they set when they started, they are still unable to provide benefits for their employees.
Instead, a distracted Mr Museveni, still denying his men were inside Sudan at all, had to pull them out in October without achieving any of his objectives.
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