But the Royal College of Nurses said there were not enough staff and hospitals were target driven.

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And Blair's idea of choice is still one handed down from on high by central government through bureaucratic target-driven initiatives like 'Choose and Book'.

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But the BDA's Scottish committee said the "target-driven" qualifying criteria would mean more practices might abandon all health service patients to focus solely on private work.

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Karen Jennings, assistant general secretary of the public sector union Unison, is worried that the new service, once put out to tender, could be target-driven meaning some patients are forced back to work too early.

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The Fed previously had a date-driven target, rather than a data-driven one.

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Inflation in the eurozone has been above the ECB's target 2% rate since July - driven up by high oil prices and the weak euro - and Mr Duisenberg said it would be "some time" before it fell back below this level.

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Television ads were data driven as well, enabling the campaign to specifically target persuadable voters and run ads during programming that appealed to a particular demographic profile.

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Howard had denied Crespo early on - one of only three shots on target over the 90 minutes - and was fortunate when Kaka's driven volley, after a poor touch from Mikael Silvestre, grazed the crossbar.

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This means that product development is driven by customer insights, that brands are truly relevant to the target audience, and that all channels deliver the brand experience the customer was promised and expects.

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Typically, these are motivated by a conspicuous success, a development program that was driven by the strength of beautiful molecular data, and the canonical example these days is PCSK9, a target which seems to feature an almost unprecedented alignment of human genetics, biomarker, and animal model data.

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