It has missed this target more often than hit it, however, and has quietly dropped mention of this goal.
In the shadow of Joyce's Tower, sprayed by the same sea that touched "old stately plump" as he lathered his chops while addressing Stephen Dedalus, Heaney drops mention of what he calls, as if sorrowfully, "the N-word", the Nobel, which came his way in 1995, eight years after Brodsky.
During the Stetsasonic taping, he dropped mentions of having attended Nelson Mandela's first American appearance, of having worked on "New Jack City," and of having directed Stetsasonic's first video, which he assessed thus: "Yo, it's cool".
Just drop a mention, or maybe throw in a quick reference to a famous scene or lyric — he'll probably catch on.
At the point the polls turn in the other direction, those against same-sex marriage will quietly drop any mention of "the will of the people".
For the first time in years, European Union leaders plan to drop any mention of the bloc's planned expansion to Turkey, Croatia and other countries in their joint statement after a summit meeting this week, Western European diplomats said.
The board's action restores evolution, the central organizing principle of modern biology, to the place it held in Kansas before a small band of religious conservatives gained control of the board and voted 18 months ago to drop all mention of evolution from the statewide science standards.
If no variant of adding or removing one character to the right or left results in balanced parenthesis, we simply drop the mention.
Or they could drop all mention of targets to keep Washington in the negotiations – and risk of the United States fatally obstructing the process of coming up with a tough regime of mandatory emissions cuts that would have to be in place by the UN's climate meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009.
She noted to Bill that she was expected to dial for dollars at a rate of 30 calls per hour, and that one larger supporter told her that he does not support the teachers union, hinting that she should drop any mention of them during her campaigning.
