As I conclude my conversation with Snow, I ask if he has any specific goals he wants to accomplish with the Calgary Flames.

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The closer you work with your surgeon to establish specific, measurable and achievable goals before surgery, the more likely you are to be satisfied with the results.

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What specific action have you taken to comply with the goals of the Fed?

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Its descriptions of open jobs detail the specific research projects and goals that go with each job.

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Warren Buffett and Bill Gates should use more of their money to set up region-specific venture capital funds and micro-lending organizations with main goals not to get killer returns but to give entrepreneurs the ability to try out their ideas.

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What then should you do with your extra income, the income that could be saved for specific goals?

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Like nail-biting and interrupting, this patterned, almost automatic behavior needs to be broken with a specific and proactive approach one that uses old-fashioned goals, motivating tactics, and rewards.

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But we do support the mission -- I mean, the resolution put forward by senators -- a number of senators, Republicans and Democrats -- that reinforce the goals that we set out in pursuing this very limited, very specific mission with specific objectives and specific limitations on U.S. involvement.

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As with most things in the business world, the size and scope of your business plan depend on your specific goals.

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And we have worked with China and India to bring them along in this process to the point where they have now released specific goals for decreasing their carbon intensity between now and 2020.

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In the long run, it will save you a great deal of time, heartache and money if you begin the financial planning process with an exploration of your values and establish goals, grown up out of those values, that are specific, measurable, attainable and especially, meaningful.

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The LMIC interagency partners have also worked towards four specific goals, informed by the work of the Childhood Obesity Task Force and the feedback received through meetings with tribal leaders and organizations.

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