• He said the 4% growth target set by the States was ambitious but achievable.

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  • Trying to meet a target set by one of those European directives, it discourages landfilling by taxing it heavily.

    ECONOMIST: The waste business smells of money

  • There should be a sense of urgency in achieving the universal primary education target set by Unesco, he added.

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  • Following the example Target set in May, Wal-Mart announced earlier this month that it would no longer sell the Kindle e-reader.

    FORBES: Kindle Withstands Major Retail Hits

  • Most important, inflation remains subdued at just 1.9% in the twelve months to March, below the 2.5%-a-year target set by the chancellor.

    ECONOMIST: Interest rates

  • The target set has also been expanded to include deeply buried targets.

    CNN: MOAB bomb moved to Iraq war region

  • China regularly exceeds the growth target set by Beijing for the year.

    BBC: NPC: China keeps growth target at 7.5%

  • The inquiry comes after Wales failed to meet the 2010 biodiversity target set as part of the UK government's commitment to the Earth Summit.

    BBC: Sustainability committee

  • However, the service did meet the second target set by the NHS - to respond to 75% of callers reporting a life-threatening emergency within eight minutes.

    BBC: Derby

  • The biofuels thing this afternoon, there's a report coming out saying that the U.S. is failing to meet the biofuels target set in the '07 energy legislation.

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  • She said that local authorities in Wales now need to look at ways of recycling food waste to meet the next European target set at 15% for 2013.

    BBC: Recycling figures show increase

  • Committee Chairperson Alban Maginness asked whether Mr Graham felt the government was committed to the 40% target set out in the Strategic Energy Framework for Northern Ireland 2010 document.

    BBC: Enterprise Committee

  • Madrid's structural deficit - which strips out the effect of the recession - fell only by 1.4% of GDP last year, barely half the 2.7% target set by the Commission.

    BBC: Business

  • EU. Excluding mortage-interest payments, the rate of inflation fell from 2.3% to 1.8%, a 25-year low also touched in November and well below the 2.5% target set by the government.

    ECONOMIST: Overview

  • "We want to achieve the 2 percent target set by the government and Bank of Japan at the earliest possible date, " Haruhiko Kuroda, currently president of the Asian Development Bank, told lawmakers Monday.

    NPR: BOJ Gov Candidate Says Inflation Target Top Goal

  • At the current rate of progress, by 2015 the number of deaths of African children under five will have fallen only to 5m a year, rather than the 2m target set by the MDG.

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  • Surely this country could reduce CO2 emissions a little more than 7% in 10 years and meet the modest target set out in the Senate climate bill, which appears likely to be introduced next week.

    FORBES: Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Take Nosedive In U.S.

  • The purpose of inquiry is to establish why Wales, along with every other country, failed to meet the 2010 biodiversity target set as part of the UK government's commitment to the United Nations' Earth Summit.

    BBC: Sustainability committee

  • It exceeded a target set in 2010 of boosting assets from continuing operations by 5% a year, but fell well short of another benchmark that would have required a return on those assets of 1.25% to 1.5%.

    WSJ: Citi's CEO Is Keeping Score

  • While some people have been making their own accommodation arrangements - so far the figures for groups booking through official channels show 40, 000 bed nights have been reserved, about a quarter of the target set in April last year.

    BBC: World Police and Fire Games competitors 50% below target

  • The Aberavon AM was very critical of the 3% reduction year on year target set by the One Wales agreement to reduce carbon emissions which has not been reached, and claimed that sustainability's report did not "begin to scratch the surface" of the problem.

    BBC: Debate on the Sustainability Committee's Report

  • In the 6 percent inflation case, although tradable goods prices, like soybeans and corn, are projected to rise to the 4.5 percent inflation target set by the Central Bank, non-tradable prices like services will go as high as 9 percent and pull the IPCA higher as a result.

    FORBES: Brazilians Should Prepare For Price Hikes

  • The longest delays were reportedly seen at passport control on Wednesday, but queues have also been seen over the past month, with some UK and other European Economic Area passengers said to have experienced waits of up to an hour - more than double the 25-minute "service standards" target set by the Home Office.

    BBC: Heathrow queues: Border Force 'ready' for Olympics

  • The Bank of England's inflation target, set by the government is currently 2.5%: undershooting the target is no less undesirable than overshooting it.

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  • Such a national economic growth target will set our sights on a positive future.

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  • Thirty-four of the 35 met the target fees set by the user fee law.

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  • Almost 70% of P7 pupils have no obvious sign of tooth decay, beating a 60% target previously set by ministers.

    BBC: Scottish children's teeth 'best on record'

  • In the year to April, it ran at 2.9%, well above the 2% target ceiling set by the European Central Bank.

    ECONOMIST: Overview

  • The conference comes at a critical moment, five years from the target date set for the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Education For All goals.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

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