Surrey County Council - one of the highest performing authorities in England - has a floor target for 2009 of at least 65%.

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Fewer than one in 10 schools, or 1, 310, are below the government's floor target of achievement - 60% of pupils getting Level 4 in English and maths and scoring above the England median for progress in maths and English.

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The Fed cut its target on federal funds, the overnight interbank loans that form the floor rate for U.S. lending, to just 0.25%, down 75 basis points from the previous 1.0% level.

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Thus the interest rate that the Fed pays should tend to put a floor under short-term market rates, including our policy target, the federal-funds rate.

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But the tax provisions of the Senate budget, which is being debated on the floor today, raise at least two big problems: They target only those tax expenditures that benefit high-income households and big businesses.

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The vote comes after Chancellor Alistair Darling said he wanted people from the "boardroom to the shop floor" to take pay rises "consistent" with the government's 2% inflation target.

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