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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

Lois McMaster Bujold

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

Stuart Bowen

It's only the tar sands that prevent the country from making its targets under Kyoto.

Tim Flannery

Mori will naturally continue to serve as premier when we win seats beyond these targets.

Hiromu Nonaka

Corporate commitments of hard assets, capital, employees, and managers fall short of what is needed to meet revenue targets.

Jim Hemerling

Cabinet noted the sterling work done by the South African Revenue Service in surpassing targets for revenue collection in the financial year just ended.

Joel Netshitenzhe

Newspapers will, no doubt, also ultimately settle into their own place as the bulk provider of low-cost advertising targets.

Jon Markman

They got a sniper rifle with a laser scope and when the targets would come out of a restaurant, they would put the red light on their chest and get various reactions.

Denny Griffin

We have to be concerned with the use of marijuana. It's becoming a political problem. ... One of our targets is to stop marijuana and Ecstasy in the young population.

Viktor Mravcik

We believe that California taxpayers deserve the right to independently and privately prepare and file their own taxes. Our concern has been that this program targets predominantly low-income and minority taxpayers who may be put at a disadvantage by getting what looks like a bill from the state.

Julie Miller

Over the past couple of years, our consulting group was really targeted to increase revenue, but we really couldn't differentiate our service from a partner service. It was just very competitive. We've made the decision as a company to have the business model of our services business be a cost-recovery business and to have our primary targets not about increasing revenue or margin.

Jim Sargent

Pursuing previously announced earnings targets despite the challenging fourth quarter and extremely difficult market conditions.

Heinrich Von Pierer

If someone is a soldier, he is under the rules of war and needs to be treated as such, ... He [Padilla] is not necessarily a prisoner of war. He's an undeclared combatant , a saboteur ... aiming at civilian targets, and outside the protection of the Geneva Convention.

John Mcginnis

Our defense businesses are hitting on all cylinders, having consistently met or exceeded targets for revenue, cash and margin.

Daniel P. Burnham

It's important to teach respect for firearms and how to handle them safely. Shooting at targets combines concentration and relaxation, and you're competing against yourself.

Michelle Gates

Our English learners and Hispanic students, they did not meet their targets, so that's an area where we're doing more work. We're trying to be more strategic, but it's still a matter of time. The students have to have more experience with the language.

Antonio Jimenez

They're moving targets. I don't think anybody in the Senate really has a good sense going into the fight ... [of] what we're going to be voting on.

Bryan Gulley

The escalation that has occurred is because (Palestinian Authority President Yasser) Arafat gave a green light to a variety of Palestinian organizations ... to attack Israeli targets.

Dore Gold

Abortion is a civil rights issue. The abortion industry targets minorities. Seventy-eight percent of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are located in minority neighborhoods.

Pam Fichter

The deceitful proposal that America and its ally Britain are trying to pass in the U.N. Security Council not only targets Iraq, but also other Arab countries and friendly countries that have trade and economic ties with Iraq.

Taha Yassin Ramadan

We look at it as an opportunity to align our people, technology and investments against strategic growth targets.

Trudy Muller

Better predictive tools will reduce the uncertainties involved in defeating very hard targets and therefore reduce the need for higher-yield weapons to overcome those uncertainties.

Irene Smith

If this happens, it will greatly increase our expected targets.

Ailton Nascimento

If [the target's] average pay is half of the buyer's average pay, guess what—their payroll is going up 50%. All those things need to be allowed for within the projection model in which you value the business, which is all a function of the CFO.

Marco Boschetti

The military has targeted a vulnerable group of young people. We send our children to school to get an education, not to become military targets.

Donna Lieberman

We run a 5-1 offense and Dan is the best setter I've seen thus far in our section. His twin brother and Dan Follett are his favorite targets.

Jeff Beavers

Since there are no (divestment) targets, there is no quantitative impact on any setback to divestment process though it surely sends a signal that reforms continue to be sluggish as ever.

Abheek Barua

This is the third consecutive year China has achieved government's goal of employment and re-employment targets.

Hu Xiaoyi

It is more a change of attitude. Every investment now has to be measured in market terms against targets and expected return rather than alleviation of poverty.

Peter Walker

Thanks to solid underlying performance during the quarter, we are on track with our financial targets and delivering on our commitments.

Gerard Kleisterlee

This summer I set myself two targets for a successful season. To get to the World Cup with England and to get into Europe with City. I still have every chance of doing that.

David James

We are on or above targets we set.

Alan Mccoy

It's happening faster than the most optimistic targets.

Ross Young

The US does not have to fear that we want to come the next day and say, now you take on Kyoto targets.

Sarah Hendry

Reserves can't have any role in earnings targets or the desire to meet an earnings target.

Thomas Bauer

Further suicide bombings in the UK must be expected, and the targets are unpredictable.

Lord Carlile

This is not a company that's on the ropes, but I think it's struggling to maintain the growth targets it has set for itself.

Cindy Shaw

We met our original 2005 targets which, in view of the special charges throughout the year, is a solid achievement. A strong second half of 2005 has given us a good basis now to enter 2006 and generate further profitable growth.

Fred Kindle

We're just getting to the point where we're having fun. Are we going to set carbon targets? Are we - god forbid in Arizona - going to do something about sprawl? We're going to do our best to get language in that will make a difference.

Roger Clark

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

Nong Duc Manh

Attackers are starting to move away form your large targets, banks etc. and are going for regional institutions and smaller business. They are also going for charitable sites, like the American Red Cross, which are the most vulnerable and trusting.

Dean Turner

Our analysis of the locals market suggests that this concern is justified, given that it would take 5 percent population growth and 10 percent increased spending per person to grow same store sales 4 percent ... and to reach revenue targets for Red Rock (Resort) and South Coast.

Steve Kent

It's another sign that effective leaders are often big targets.

John Pitney

These incidents are definitely not always out in the open. We found that the targets view the instigators as cunning, that they might choose the setting for this to happen where they know others won't be able to see it.

Christine Pearson

Look at some of the targets these people had. They don't carry any weight anymore.

Seth Tobias

We do what needs to be done to achieve our earnings targets.

Klaus Kleinfeld

We are the immediate targets. They are going to take away our passports. I'm sure of that.

Paul Themba Nyathi

It's always a percentage based on a target system. You have plant targets, department targets and personal targets. It's not like everybody gets $1,000 or everybody gets $10,000.

Bunny Richardson

We are working hard on some of the advanced technologies ... but the development and deployment of technology does not fit with rigid targets and timetables.

Harlan Watson

We know the Bay Area will be hit by a major quake some time in the next few decades, and we are one of the top terrorist targets. Transportation around the area is hindered by (San Francisco Bay) but we can turn that into an advantage by efficient use of our ferry system.

Michael Cunningham

This buoyancy makes us hope we'll proudly overshoot our targets, though we don't want to revise the official target.

Vinnie Mehta

She skied really fast. She missed 10 targets, which is quite a lot, but she was 10 minutes out, so she skied right there with the top people. That's good for her to see that.

Tracy Barnes

You've only got to imagine what would happen here in Australia, with shopping centres and restaurants - they're fairly easy targets.

Peter Hughes

We have five targets out there. Anyone can step it up. We can't do it without teamwork. We all went out and did our jobs.

Ashleigh Tondo

The joint venture structure allows us to judiciously use our cash resources and to maximize our shareholders' value by obtaining a strong return through our management fee and minority interest, which includes a provision for enhanced returns based on exceeding certain targets.

Bill Sheriff

The level of optimism of companies coming out of July and August is reasonable. It's easier to beat August sales targets since they are traditionally quite low.

Barry Randall

The industrial shutdown targets small automakers that can't maintain production or sustain market demand and who don't have enough research and development capability to support future development.

Jia Xinguang

We exceeded all of our operational and financial targets, smoothly integrated the acquisitions of Specialty Defense and Bianchi International, and effectively leveraged our asset purchases from Second Chance.

Robert Schiller

The objective is to slow down investment growth and loan growth which were higher than the targets set by the government. This won't be the only move and more administrative measures are likely to come.

Ma Jun

It's strictly supply and demand. These drivers know they can walk out of here tomorrow and get a job with any number of carriers that are supplying the Wal-Marts and the Targets.

Bob Farley

As far as a lot of smaller companies go, there's always a risk but they have a reasonable amount of security through obscurity. If they take reasonable steps, they are pretty safe because they're not public targets and don't have the notoriety of a U.S. Air Force or Pentagon.

Rob Ayoub

We had some drives going, we had some targets open and he just overthrew the ball. But in his defense, the protection broke down a little, too. When that happens, you lose vision real quick.

Avery Cutshaw

Fifty caliber sniper rifles were designed as battlefield rifles to destroy aircraft, puncture armor, attack fuel depots and other material targets, and to be used for assassination due to the rifle's astonishing range and firepower.

Thom Mannard

What we looked at is a conventional ICBM that has the inherent capability of a [nuclear] ICBM, with its accuracy, speed and range, ... Those military characteristics are attractive for a particular set of targets.

Lance Lord

We're making fun of people who pick ridiculous targets to blame anything about what's going on in their lives, so Canada was just the perfect, ridiculous, innocuous choice for a target.

Marc Shaiman

We are also setting high targets to eliminate pollution concerns and engines' impact on the environment.

Antoine Herteman

What the (U.S.) Supreme Court and the nation have noticed is that when you are trying to single out and protect people who have been targets of bullying and violence it's necessary to enumerate categories.

Rebecca Steele

It's the wee, quiet families that are suffering, they're the targets, they're the easy targets - the Home Office knows where they are, they are the least likely to abscond and the least likely to put up resistance.

Kathleen Marshall

The Kyoto protocol doesn't amount to much in terms of emissions reductions but at least it breaks the curve (of rising emissions) among countries that have accepted its targets.

Steve Sawyer

It targets parents and students who have no other alternative to put their children in good schools. I think the proposal is harder to oppose this time around.

Tracy Edge

The Zimbabwean government is using criminal charges to muzzle independent reporting and criticism. This crackdown targets media that criticize government institutions, officials and the ruling party.

Paul Simo

It is going to get harder for everybody. The targets will stay flat through 2007, but after that, they are going to go up dramatically. After that, it is going to be really hard for schools statewide to make it.

Bill Padia

We have said for the last couple of weeks that we have seen the enemy starting to attack soft targets, Iraqi targets, rather than military targets, ... He is attempting to intimidate the people of Iraq. He will not succeed.

Mark Kimmitt

We continue to be interested, we continue to see targets, we continue to analyze and look at opportunities. We do want to invest (in wealth management), ... We do have room for buying back (more shares), but the first priority remains to invest in the business.

Peter Wuffli

These are people who are seen to be relatively powerless, invisible, easy targets for hate and . . . heavily stigmatized and misunderstood.

Lelia Deandrade

A lot more of them should have played in this past game because they could have been just as effective. But it didn't matter because we couldn't hit targets, so it didn't matter who was in out there.

Jeff Bowden

Our backs have to hit the hole hard. Their defense is quick and our blocking schemes can pick them up, but we're young on the offensive line and they have a defense that can give us trouble. We have to stay on our pads and keep our eyes open. They're moving targets.

Rusty Jester

Leaders of the enemy should know that they personally are targets.

Islamic Jihad

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.

Alexander Haig

As we build new schools, the classes will be constructed to adhere to the class size reduction targets. And as we build additions those classes must be built to adhere the class size reduction targets.

Nat Harrington

They're big targets, it's nice to throw to them. I'm very happy. It brings a whole new dimension to our offense that we haven't had in the past. It makes it a lot harder for teams to defend us.

Thomas Bradley

That's the attraction of these targets. Everybody has to use them to get to work on a daily basis, even in Israel.

Bruce Hoffman

We kind of worked on our offense and things that we need to do real well. We were moving the hitters around and different targets. It was a good match for us.

Joe Sanders

They all have goals and everybody wants to make their targets for the week.

Robert Coleman

Cost-reduction targets sound good on paper but achieving many of them will require UAW cooperation.

Jonathan Steinmetz

The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that travelers have the same information we as diplomats have. Americans and Western interests are targets, and Americans should be aware of that.

Angela Aggeler

It's unfortunate, but it really doesn't have any impact on us. We are focused. We still have thousands of vehicles we need to build and meet our targets.

Kerry Christopher

The market drifted today. A lot of people were not in. People are concerned over profit warnings, missed revenue targets and that sort of thing.

Irwin Michael

We have taken the leadership role we promised last year. This is by pushing for concrete targets and timetables.

Michael Curtis

Those targets are generally what everyone gets in a good year -- not a bad year, not a great year -- a good year.

Bill Coleman

We are seen as legitimate targets, as part of the problem rather than the solution, according to the insurgents.

Michael Ware

The Middle East healthcare sector is outperforming in terms of what targets the service and equipment providers are setting for this region. The Middle East region is outperforming North America, Europe and Asia in growth terms, and most companies are exceeding their expectations here.

Vicky Lee

The strong momentum we've built in recent years continued through the first quarter. We exceeded our growth targets, made significant investment in our businesses, and overcame continued cost pressures. These results again demonstrate the strength and flexibility of our business model.

Jim Jenness

I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will continue to fight for the funding that will secure high-risk targets, such as our ports and borders.

Mark Pryor

We had a few turnovers early on and our goal was to minimize those. Later we did a good job of showing patience and not forcing shots and passes. We made some nice east-west passes and we were able to hit the high targets. We have some speedy players on the high targets and if we don't force it, we get some great shots.

Stacey Freda

This missile is extremely accurate. It will reduce the number of munitions needed for any given targets and its vertical impact makes it the weapon of choice when collateral damage is a concern.

Derrick Edwards

I think you should pay attention to people's recommended asset allocation and you should put less emphasis on the targets.

Thomas Mcmanus

It's much too early to start talking about targets for developing countries.

Marthinus Van Schalkwyk

Spirit and Opportunity are approaching targets that a year ago seemed well out of reach. Their successes strengthen NASA's commitment to a vision with the ambitious targets of returning samples from Mars and sending human explorers to Mars.

Doug Mccuistion

IBM continues to believe that it can hit consensus EPS targets. In a deteriorating environment, this undeniably represents a solid showing.

Thomas Kraemer

There was a strong agreement that given the commitments made to reach global health targets, and given the urgent needs out there, it would be ethically impossible to not launch round six.

Jon Liden

The Supreme Court of the nation has noticed that when you're trying to protect people who have been targets of bullying and violence, it is necessary to enumerate categories. The reason is so people are given notice, concretely, of what behavior they can and cannot do.

Becky Steele

Target's Global Bazaar collection is competing well with Pier 1 in similar merchandise.

Anthony Chukumba

That's where I think Colorado is benefiting, perhaps at a disproportionate rate to what is going on nationally. Also, you've got a lot of targets in Colorado because of the supportive environment that is fostered by VC inflows into these entrepreneurial companies.

Chris Haymons

I think we are in a correction that was way overdue. There has been tremendous complacency by strategists about the Asia problem and even up until last week everyone was raising their targets. The Asia problem is real.

Charles Pradilla

The UK can meet its targets for tackling climate change and maintain fuel security by using clean, safe alternatives that are already available.

Tony Juniper

We're seeing greenhouse gas emissions rise under this government. We're seeing this government now not talking about targets, talking about technology instead.

Caroline Lucas

We had another year of record results and exceeded all of our 2005 targets.

Rick Waugh

In a time when his party almost never exceeded 51 percent of the seats in the House, he was able time and again to command the discipline to deliver. He was always playing on the edge, and people who play on the edge, and are effective, become targets.

Charles O. Jones

There are two real targets for intelligence: the Islamic world and China. It's pretty clear that the types of people who are going to be high on their recruitment list are going to be Asian-looking, Asian-language- speaking Brits.

Bob Ayers

The poll gives immigrants the first chance to participate in the debate rather than be targets of the debate. The country's top dozen ethnic media dailies -- along with the major in-language broadcast network -- published the results simultaneously on Monday, Mar. 27 in a coordinated effort to ensure that these key voices are part of the national discourse.

Sandy Close

There is little evidence that mandatory emissions caps actually work. For example, since signing the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, which mandates the reduction of carbon emissions, both Canada and Greece have seen a nearly 25 percent increase in emissions. According to the European Environment Agency, 13 EU nations that signed onto the Kyoto Protocol are on track to miss their 2010 emissions targets.

Harry Alford

The targets included terrorist training camps, military airfields, and air defenses.

Geoffrey Hoon

On pricing, absolutely, we are going to be competitive. Obviously these are the devices we have high targets for.

Niklas Savander

The interactions we discovered in yeast could also help researchers select the human versions of these genes suitable as targets for the development of new, more targeted and less toxic cancer therapies.

Jef Boeke

2005 has seen another robust performance by our Grocery business with our drive brands growing strongly and our operating margins improving in line with our targets.

Robert Schofield

Government will need to start thinking unconventionally about achieving its targets, or (it) may have to acknowledge that the targets are a bit ambitious.

Mike Schussler

They're doing the right things and getting in the right areas. The professional builder market is a $400 billion-plus market. When you're the second-largest retailer, if you want to continue to grow you have to continue to go after really large targets.

Marvin Roffman

This is a more shrink-wrapped approach for the concept of grid computing that targets a more modest area of use.

Jonathan Eunice

It would have triggered an immediate attempt to gather every piece of information we could about the plan, the targets.

Harry Samit

Travels with Amigo targets ESL students and helps us make connections with parents. It is a nice way to bring what is going on at home into our schools.

Jennifer Ostrowski

We are happy to be on track with our targets. As we continue to improve efficiency and implement debottleneck-ing, we are confident that we will be able to achieve our production forecasts for the year.

Bruce Anderson

We are appalled, ... James Sherwood has made a good living out of Harry's Bar, but now our hands are tied and it's a very difficult situation to be in. As a major shareholder, Sherwood could put restrictions on us. He could set us management targets and suchlike until the very essence of Harry's Bar is ripped apart.

Robin Birley

We should commit resources, as we did to conquer polio in the fifties. We could quadruple the Alzheimer's budget and not saturate all clinical trials and possible targets. If we don't there will be hell to pay in twenty years.

John Trojanowski

If consumer confidence holds steady, and consumers spend the money from tax cuts, and once business see a clear sign of a rebound in sales, then around September or October, they're going to budget and change their targets for capital spending. Then, it takes a couple of months to hire people and get set up.

Rajeev Dhawan

Sportsmen are soft targets, especially over in South Africa.

Ollie Le Roux

No, I feel pressure from myself to deliver good results. The level of unemployment is not my bag - I shall hit the targets which the government has set for us.

Bo Bylund

Personally, I don't think he is a serial killer but just a thief, an ordinary thief who has been attacking soft targets such as women. And I don't think he was operating alone, there may be others like him, but of course we are investigating that and we shall come to the bottom of it.

David Magara

We do what needs to be done to achieve our earnings targets, ... Only successful businesses can secure and create jobs.

Klaus Kleinfeld

This is very consistent with Citigroup's strategy to build and internationalize its key businesses and also to focus on businesses it thinks it can grow at a very rapid pace. Over the past 10 years, [Associates First] has had 23 percent compound growth in pre-tax earnings and a high growth operation ... which is consistent with Citibank's focus on acquiring high-growth targets.

Judah Kraushaar

We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.

Ricardo Lagos

We're seeing some very deliberate attacks against some high profile targets right now, to showcase the talent of the attacker, so they can get work for the Russian mafia or whoever it may be.

Paul Vixie

They're being profiled, ... Over and over, our artists are targets only to be later found not guilty. Like (Sean) 'Puffy' (Combs).

Benjamin Chavis

She killed seven men in cold blood, ... She didn't premeditate the individual killing. She had a pattern, and she took targets of opportunity ... just whoever happened in her path on the day that she decided to kill.

John Tanner

They have a strategy that targets every conceivable private opportunity in the world. What they're doing has never been done before on this scale. They are the pioneers.

David Snow

There is no front line in Iraq. Individuals who are patrolling the streets will be at higher risk of being involved in combat, but folks who are largely located at one base are also targets of mortar and artillery, and everyone in convoys is a target.

Col. Charles Hoge

Words of Muslims are important. It's important for people to know that Muslims think that terrorism is the epitome of injustice because it targets innocent people. People need to hear those words, and they're more credible from Muslims themselves.

Karen Hughes

There has (long) been empathy among Jordanians for insurgent strikes against military targets in Iraq, particularly against U.S. forces.

Mustafa Hamarneh

It's very fast. You turn on a G protein, and it immediately targets the mechanism to modify release.

Simon Alford

The current crop of very talented juniors is a testament to the long-term foundations provided at the grassroots level and the sport will be able to build on this platform by boosting participation, increasing the talent pool helping to prepare future champions to reach our medal targets in 2008 and 2012.

David Moorcroft

Countries are not on track to reach even their modest Kyoto targets, despite growing recognition that we are already facing dramatic consequences as a result of climate change.

Catherine Pearce

If the targets continue to be specific industries such as financial firms and airlines, it's not clear that another terror attack will have strong ripple effects through the rest of the economy.

Dorsey Farr

The German government supports all measures which help to fight this scourge of the international community. This is particularly the case for the attacks the U.S. carried out yesterday on targets in Afghanistan and S}dan.

Helmut Kohl

They generally defined what these moves would be and some general targets to reach, but we're far from complete with the details, It looks like they got barely enough.

David Toung

At the celebration at the Shiite shrine, a cleric gave a scathing speech in the mosque's courtyard. He lashed out at the first Muslim caliphs, the founding fathers of Islam in Sunni eyes, and usurpers of power in Shiite eyes. Though he couched his attacks in the context and vocabulary of early Islamic history, it was clear that he had much more contemporary targets in his metaphorical crosshairs.

Correspondent Charles Levinson

A lot of our young people are targets for adults who are exploiting them, and they see any action by adults trying to help them as an assault on them. I wanted to help them.

Dwayne Baskerville

Last year, oil prices were really high so there was no problem meeting targets.

Joydeep Mukherji

Far from being easy targets for exploitation, emerging markets are generating a wave of disruptive product and process innovations that are helping established companies and a new generation of entrepreneurs to achieve new price-performance levels for a range of globally traded goods and services. Eventually, such companies may capture significant market share in Europe and the United States.

John Seely Brown

The proposal represents one of Europe's most effective commercial banks seeking to continue exporting its know-how to markets where these skills can accelerate growth at targets. BNP expands this way worldwide.

Simon Maughan

We go through an unbelievable amount of paper targets each year. We have hundreds of kids shooting each year.

Bud Bowman

[Another browser, Opera, has also gained, especially in Europe.] The incumbents are vulnerable, ... Today, those are the juiciest targets.

David Cowan

Related government bodies should come up with more practical targets of China's gas power development.

Wang Yonggan

A break of 6.20/dollar this week looks inevitable as euro/dollar buying on dips targets 1.2630 then 1.2690. Technical support below 6.20 is at 6.15.

Caroline Gorman

We are not disclosing these targets at this time.

Carlos Brito

Mandatory reporting is something we need to get started on as soon as possible. You can't make targets if you don't have anything to measure.

Terry Tamminen

The company has moved a lot of its production abroad and that should help it increase future profit margins and keep its growth targets.

Patrizio Pazzaglia

The Japanese have indicated that despite the fact that they share the Kyoto targets and they want the protocol enforced by 2002, they are not, at present, willing to conclude the deal without the U.S.

Margot Wallstrom

Target's increased emphasis on providing consumers with trend-right merchandise has strengthened the retail chain's presence as a destination for apparel.

Jeffrey Klinefelter

There might be transactions involving smaller companies that probably represent more available targets than the networks because they're so hard to pry loose from their strong owners.

Tom Burnett

They will be shooting targets in all different patterns, ... The fastest horse and best shooter wins. It's very entertaining. We have people all the way from 6 to 70 years old entered, and there will be people from 27 states here next week.

Jim Rodgers

This is ridiculous. It shows that GPs are having to engage far more in satisfying local bureaucracies rather than their patients. This is yet more evidence of doctors being under pressure to live in this bogus world of targets met and targets set, when from the patient's point of view the service hasn't improved.

Andrew Lansley

The real unknown for generators and for the petrochemical and cement industries is the allocation method that will be used for carbon allowances in phase two from 2008 onwards, the critical period for meeting the Kyoto targets.

Mark Klein

There's just more targets out there for bank robbers to hit.

Frank Bochte

Overall, some performance results fell short of the targets we agreed to achieve in 2005.

Derek Mcluckey

Everything -- all sources, all methods, all techniques, all targets.

David Major

It's not passé. A number of central banks have been given inflation targets by their governments and I think that's appropriate because governments are elected and must explain their choices to the electorate.

Tito Mboweni

The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is down.

Gloria Arroyo

In addition, on the issue of grade compression, employees who meet or exceed their performance targets will receive an additional fixed amount to their basic salaries if their annual salaries fall below a specified threshold.

Charlotte Mokoena

We believe several of the company's assets/divisions may be attractive acquisition targets given their growth prospects and the relative ease to which they could be separated from the larger business.

Sarah Thompson

I'm not so concerned about the drug issue. The situation I'm concerned about is, what about the guns? What about the terrorists using these airports as targets?

Tom Cash

I think Target's going to continue to take share even from companies like Kohl's and J.C. Penney.

Michael Koskuba

But at this time we have no information regarding a specific imminent attack against civilian or religious targets.

Giuseppe Pisanu

They met their own lowered targets. What is worrying is their reluctance to spell out where the market is going.

Chris Doyle

Although the FBI is legally forbidden from monitoring the communications of citizens who are not targets under Carnivore, the mere knowledge that government agents have the technical capacity to read e-mail messages will greatly increase the uncertainty of innocent citizens.

Jeffrey Rosen

We are the targets because we are the strong pillar that holds the nation ... If we break, the whole institution, the whole organization collapses.

Tristan Kison

[But Panke acknowledged that the Mini's profit margins would be lower than that of other BMW cars in its first life cycle. BMW model life cycles are generally seven years.] We will not hit our usual profitability targets in the Mini's first life cycle, ... But we won't lose any money either.

Helmut Panke

There are a lot of people who are skeptical and need convincing. What we want to know is what their updated growth targets will be.

Jon Wright

Until now we have not had a close-up view of the precise surface where the two proteins interact. That surface is absolutely crucial in permitting the parasite to enter the cell. If we can determine its features in atomic detail, we may be able to find weak points that could make good targets for drugs.

Amit Sharma

This drug is a good example of the potential of developing drugs with very specific biological targets in mind. But this experience also reminds us that there are a lot of hidden icebergs in the ocean we're navigating, and we're going to bump up against those icebergs and have to work out ways to navigate around them.

David Clifford

The fundamentals for big pharmaceutical firms are fine. Cash is fine to support growth, and earnings are meeting the targets. I think investors are taking some of that for granted and ignoring it.

David Saks

I do not look at it as shot across the bow to (Target's) competitors, ... To me, there are limited properties in Abington that can use a program like this. Quite frankly, we're running out of them. Whether it makes Target come here or not, I don't really know.

Joseph Murray

It's high poverty. It's high English-language learners. It's a school with many challenges, and still they made their targets. We'll look at their successes.

Renae Dreier

I think with these projections the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] will be in a good position to reach the people most in need of the vaccine and additional targets as well.

Alison Marquiss

The cost of the expansion is higher than we expected, but diamond prices and demand have been buoyant, which means the project will meet returns targets.

Atul Lele

Listed companies have to get to grips with this, particularly because you need people to buy shares for investment and if you miss targets the share price will fall.

Steve Pearce

The biggest problem has been increased competition from retailers like Target. In my opinion, Target's home furnishing offerings are as good if not better than Pier 1's and more competitively priced.

Anthony Chukumba

Many clinical priorities aren't recorded and some targets, like A&E and GP bookings, create more problems than they solve.

Andrew Lansley

By setting binding limits, the bill will make the governor's targets real.

Devra Wang

They're supposed to be working up an action plan with targets and timetables and the means of implementation. We can talk about partnerships after they've done that.

Steve Sawyer

It is all very well for the government to trumpet the merits of technology in reducing carbon emissions, but it simply isn't enough; we need robust, measurable targets, not just vague aspirations.

Norman Baker

From our interrogation, it was revealed that Bangalore and Hyderabad were among the top targets.

Ajay Kumar

If I had known there was an entire day-care center, it might have given me pause to switch targets. That's a large amount of collateral damage.

Timothy Mcveigh

It's important to keep in mind that these tax credits are credits against Dell tax payments that wouldn't exist without significant investment from Dell. In the case of North Carolina, it's a performance basis. Dell doesn't get tax credits unless we meet job creation targets. . . . That's good for Dell and good for North Carolina.

Colleen Ryan

This seems to be another indication that growth targets may be too aggressive. It's more expensive to attract new customers. On the other hand, retaining and developing them typically requires investments in systems, employees and processes that bankers emerging from expense management strategies may not yet be comfortable with.

Piercarlo Gera

If we're confronted with targets on the ground in Canada, we're going to do what we have to do.

Jack Hooper

Given how high the market is, if there's anyone missing their targets, they're really going to be hammered in a big way.

James Holt

More large-scale projects and infrastructure construction following the 11th Five-Year Plan contributed to the rising loans. Besides, Chinese banks, which are eager to meet their business targets for this year, are also giving out more loans.

Wang Yuanhong

You've got to be in the right place to score on it. The greens are such small targets. It's a really good golf course, because it doesn't favor big hitters.

Fred Funk

I think we'll continue to see them (be targets), ... There's so many of them, and they're open at the right time of day and ... there's money there.

Greg Collins

I think the impetus of the Chase-J.P Morgan merger is that everybody's getting bigger and bigger in this group. You saw the acquisition of PaineWebber and then DLJ, and really the playing field gets that much smaller. There's only three targets left out there and J.P. Morgan represents the best of that bunch.

Andy Collins