But they both recognised that the target for reducing pay increases in 1978-79 was too ambitious, ending in political disaster.
Also at the ambitious end of the scale are Norway, Japan and Brazil, which are proposing to reduce their emissions significantly.
Climate Action Tracker described the promise as being "at the least ambitious end of what would be a fair contribution", and not consistent with meeting a 2C target.
And it is partly because the Fed provided an ambitious end point (ie, stopping bond purchases when the jobless rate reaches 7%) with little clarity about how it planned to get there, or how that goal weighed against other signs of weakness such as the uncomfortably low inflation rate.The Fed needs to spell out its priorities and plans much more fully.
Holger Preuss, an academic at Cologne University who has studied the economics of hosting the games, reckons that London's plans are towards the ambitious end of the scale.The planned public subsidy for the games is £2.4 billion ($4.2 billion), split between the National Lottery, the London Development Agency and council-tax payers in London.
Niederhuber follows the controversial Andrew von Eschenbach, a friend of President Bush's family who launched several large research programs and set an ambitious goal of ending suffering and death from cancer by 2015 (Science, 21 April, p. 357).
A meeting of leaders from the world's leading economies concluded on Monday with the ambitious goal of ending fossil fuel use by the end of the century.
Earlier this year, the government announced an ambitious goal to end open defecation in the country within 10 years.
The report said the world should set the ambitious goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and go beyond the MDGs, which did not focus enough on reaching the poorest and most excluded people.
For me, and Water.org, it's achieving this ambitious goal -- ending global water poverty as we know it.
