If a society is not, on balance, committed to price stability, the central bank will struggle to achieve it, no matter how strong its balance sheet.
But after everything the family has been through, she won't force them out of her home to help them achieve it, no matter how old they get.
To Carpenter, Obama's presidency "meant hope that if you put your mind to something and God calls you to do something, you're going to achieve it no matter what may come against you".
Its inflation objective is defined in the loosest terms, as a rate between zero and 2%, with no time-frame to achieve it and no penalty for failure.But in November Naoto Kan, who has since become Japan's finance minister, made what aides proudly call his "deflation declaration", urging the BoJ to redouble its efforts to combat falling prices.
You know what saddens my heart, is when you try and celebrate an accomplishment with those that have helped you achieve it and no matter what, someone, anyone, has something negative to say.
What am I getting out of being mean to another person I have never met?" You know what saddens my heart, is when you try and celebrate an accomplishment with those that have helped you achieve it and no matter what, someone, anyone, has something negative to say.
"If your elected government tells you this is the right thing to do, if your performance is measured on it and if you are sacked for failing to achieve it, you have no choice but to do it.
You may well be right but, if anyone is to achieve it, there is surely no one better qualified than its present chair, Anne Owers, who has been in post for less than two years.
Colbert emphasizes that his character is genuinely well-meaning and wants to do the right thing, but does not have the tools to achieve it "because he has no curiosity, he doesn't like to read and he won't listen to anybody except the voices in his head".
Unlike Mr. Gorbachev, they don't see glasnost, openness, as a means of achieving it — and no amount of sermonizing from America will change that.
Of course, in almost all cases, "makeup-free" celebrities are wearing plenty (last catwalk season, a makeup artist told me the "look" was "about real skin" before demonstrating how he'd achieved it with no fewer than a dozen products).
