That a central bank has an explicit inflation target does not tell you how quickly it will try to bring inflation back into line when it has veered off course.

ECONOMIST: The message is the medium-term

Zaki headed off target twice as Wigan struggled to make their superiority tell.

BBC: Wigan 1-0 Tottenham

If the independent forecasters are right, the OBR is almost certain to tell him that he will not be able to meet his debt target - that is, to have the stock of debt falling as a share of GDP in 2015 - without additional tax rises or spending cuts, before the election.

BBC: George Osborne chooses his words carefully

Auroras scientists use a fluorescent marker to tell them whether a candidate drug molecule has had an effect on the target molecule.

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