Over the years his parodies have hit the mark, sometimes a bit too closely.

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As such they may have hit the mark better than the Chinese leadership could have imagined.

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So far the experiments that have been done haven't really hit the mark yet, but it's good that they are developing the ideas.

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At present, only Harvest and BP Prudhoe Bay have hit and surpassed the 14% mark, probably because they have specific recent developments.

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So if inflation rates were to hit the mark central bankers have set for them about 2% and if lenders were to want the interest payments that they normally expect, Japan and Britain would have to devote about a quarter of their entire annual output just to service debt.

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For Facebook to hit the 20-30% mark in the near future, Credits would have to be on nearly every social game.

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In 2012, Nissan and Infiniti combined would have had to sell 300, 000 more units to hit that mark, on top of the 1.1 million they actually sold.

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Proposal 2 "allows alumni to simply drop in on admissions committee members to lobby for a legacy policy, " while affirmative-action proponents must "hit the streets with petitions to amend the Michigan Constitution before they can have the same chance, " said Mark Fancher, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan's Racial Justice Project.

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If temperatures continue to hit 100 degrees or more by Saturday, Dallas will have set a record -- becoming the first city to mark 43 consecutive days of temperatures above 100 degrees.

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