Word: targetting
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...Kerry-Boxer bill, most environmental groups supported it, happy to see a bill with a tighter short-term emissions-reduction target. But the bill still has plenty of holes for a piece of legislation that has been in the works for months, saying little about how allowances for carbon emissions would be distributed among polluting industries - a key part of any cap-and-trade bill. And with natural gas fans blaming the bill for having too little support of natural gas and nuclear fans saying there's not enough support of nuclear, gathering up support from Republican Senators and even...
...target on his chest for the whole Merrill Lynch deal, and I can only imagine the emotional stress he's endured." - Alan Villalon, an analyst at First American Funds, after Lewis' announcement. (Associated Press, Sept...
...April the U.S. Senate introduced the bipartisan Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, which would expand sanctions imposed by Bill Clinton in 1996 and give the White House the authority to sanction companies that export gas to Iran. Senator Joe Lieberman told reporters at the time that the law would "target Iran's Achilles' economic heel, which is its dependence on imports of petroleum ... most notably gasoline." (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...footprint and help us achieve President Faust’s goal of reducing Harvard’s greenhouse-gas footprint 30 percent by 2016. That being said, creative ideas such as changing the treatment of our grass are encouraging signs that we will reach, if not surpass, this target...
Part of last spring’s budget plan had called for the hiring of fewer teaching assistants—section leaders who are otherwise unaffiliated with Harvard, as opposed to teaching fellows. Average section sizes were expected to creep upwards, closer to a long-standing target of 18 students, which, according to McCarty, is frequently undershot...