• The company has been actively seeking new opportunities, but most of the current targets are in northern Russia or the Barents Sea.

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  • They're also determined to maintain their current traffic targets while writing one less post a week.

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  • Explicit current-account targets have their shortcomings, not least that policymakers can influence them only indirectly.

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  • The key to their argument was that the government's deficit rules allow capital spending to be increased without abandoning Plan A as the Treasury's so-called "fiscal mandate" targets current not capital spending.

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  • The current more flexible targets by the end of each Key Stage will also be replaced by more rigid year-by-year targets, but it is not yet clear how this learning will be assessed.

    BBC: Primary maths plan threatens 'too much too soon'

  • It is clear that, in current times, the targets for cutting deficits are open for negotiation.

    BBC: Will Europe cut its interest rate?

  • Still elusive, however, are firm targets in current account surpluses or deficits aimed at easing trade imbalances.

    CNN: Economic rifts loom as G-20 leaders meet

  • He made his comments while giving evidence to the Commons Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry into how the UN Kyoto Protocol will progress after the current period for emission targets ends in 2012.

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  • It also said there needed to be more clarity about planned savings targets in the current year and next year and how they would be achieved.

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  • Mr Cui, China's top G-20 negotiator, also firmly rejected a proposal from U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to negotiate targets to narrow current-account gaps and ease global trade imbalances.

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  • As a result of all this, and the boom in e-commerce, the big parcel companies, such as Federal Express, UPS and DHL (not targets of the current investigation), have seen business boom.

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  • Its current collaborators include such frequent targets of activists' ire as Wal-Mart, a giant retailer with no time for unions, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), a private-equity firm often depicted as a financial predator.

    ECONOMIST: Business and NGOs

  • In the past two months Solectron, the biggest of them also known as electronic manufacturing service (EMS) companies announced that it would miss analysts' revenue targets for the current quarter and lay off 9, 000 employees, 11% of its work force.

    FORBES: Meeting the makers

  • Festival promoters have started to woo them with increasing fervor, but for the most part the closest that boomers might come to being targets of "current" music are the new albums put out by veteran artists who have been around for decades retread recordings like the ones Rod Stewart releases, for example.

    WSJ: Meet the Generationally Biased

  • The challenge for a buyer right now is to actually ink a deal at current prices, because most potential targets are still valuing themselves using parameters pulled from the rich deals of 2010.

    FORBES: China Gets Picky On Commodities Deals

  • Tough negotiations are under way on the EU's 2014-2020 budget, with some member states arguing that the Commission's funding targets are too ambitious in the current climate of national belt-tightening.

    BBC: Closer union 'urgent' - EU Commission chief Barroso

  • Because of the recession, tax revenues in the current financial year have already fallen short of government targets, necessitating the higher tax rates in the new budget.

    BBC: Portugal passes another austerity budget

  • This follows the publication last year of an agreement between the government and the Welsh Local Government Association that sets out targets for the two establishments for the current government's term.

    BBC: Debate on public service reform

  • It is an attempt to find more savings from the current budget to get closer to one of his targets and, at the same time, to increase infrastructure spending in the hope it boosts Britain's anaemic growth.

    BBC: Autumn Statement: A difficult day for George Osborne

  • The threats against the U.S. are also hard to take seriously because hitting long-range targets is still widely believed to be beyond the current limits of North Korea's missile technology.

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  • But he concedes that Bernstein, who first worked for Pitofsky at the FTC during the Carter administration, when he held her current job, doesn't shy away from major corporate targets.

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  • It seems that current sentiment wants to stick with the bull bias, but keep their targets and stop levels tight and realistic.

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  • Under the current law, special prosecutors have an unlimited budget to hire aides and investigate their targets.

    CNN: Starr opposes Independent Counsel Act

  • Education and literacy targets have been a primary focus of national strategic planning, and the current target is to reach 95.8 per cent adult literacy by 2014, which equates to an extra 8.5 million literate people compared to the 2008 adult literacy rate.

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  • It said that schools should be set targets by the government to increase the proportion of girls studying physics from the current national average of just one in five.

    BBC: State schools 'failing girls who want to study physics'

  • Radical measures often turn out to mean tinkering with the current arrangements, and the government is responsible for plenty of the red tape and the targets it now wants to banish.

    ECONOMIST: Politics

  • Friends of the Earth wants to see higher recycling targets brought in, along with a tax on burning waste and the removal of current financial incentives for incineration.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Cornwall | Waste disposal restrictions start

  • Dr Allwood says that in order to meet CO2 targets, demand for new steel in the UK alone must be reduced to 30% of current levels.

    BBC: Savings needed to meet future demand for resources

  • The reform programme Egypt proposed to the IMF targets a reduction of the deficit from 10.9 per cent of gross domestic product in the current June fiscal year, to 9.5 per cent in the next year.

    CNN: Egypt hits problems over IMF loan

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