The target measure was structural borrowing for current spending (the "cyclically adjusted current budget balance").
As Mr Cameron and other senior government members keep reminding us, the coalition has cut its target measure of borrowing by 25%.
But, even if it is not included in the target measure, higher borrowing is higher borrowing, which will somehow have to be paid for.
Without those transfers, the target measure of borrowing would be 4.3% of GDP in 2012-13 - or just 10% lower than in 2010, despite two years of austerity.
The target measure of inflation has been significantly above 2% for the best part of 7 years, and the latest central forecast from the Bank shows it staying well above 2.5% for at least the next 18 months.
I'll say a few more words about that in a minute, but first we should savour the symbolism of the fact that the government will not be eliminating the target measure of the deficit in the lifetime of the parliament.
The other was not: the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has become a bit more optimistic about underlying state of the economy, and that has meant that the chancellor's target measure of the deficit has not increased as much as expected.
"This method was not suitable as mortgage interest payments are directly influenced by official interest rates, which would make the new index less suitable for use as an inflation target measure, were the government to decide to do so at some point in the future, " the ONS said.
Chief amongst them is George Osborne, who used to treat protection of triple-A rating as a key target and measure of his economic competence and political virility.
The different instruments were needed to track down the target galaxies, measure star formation and identify mergers, and, crucially, with Chandra, see the X-ray emissions that come from heated material as it is sucked into a black hole.
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Airlines say they most often pick trips randomly, and sometimes target problem flights to measure how employees responded to trouble.
The concrete goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds created a clear target by which to measure success or failure.
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To determine the price target from this formation, measure the height of the flagpole, which is defined as the distance from the breakout above resistance to the first high, which is labeled line 1.
For these reasons, Mr Woodford thinks central banks should target core inflation rather than a broader measure.
Ministers admit the Rough Sleeper Count is a snapshot, but they will use it to measure whether they have reached their target of eradicating rough sleeping by 2012.
In fingering GDP as a target, monetarists pick a rate at which this Keynesian measure should grow at, and then they call for money growth by the Fed in order to reach the growth rate.
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Seven per cent of bowel cancer cases could be spotted in the target age group but is this enough to justify this type of public health measure?
Inflation, by the Fed's preferred measure, is only a smidgen above the central bank's target range, and rising interest charges are not the thing to cheer up increasingly gloomy consumers.
The broad M2 measure of money supply grew by 19.7%, exceeding the official target of 17%.
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