But the total percentage hides a harsh reality: 61 of the companies in the FTSE 100 are still falling short of the 25% target.
Can we please get someone in charge who will stop whining that Osama is hiding in "harsh terrain," hunt him down and blast him forward to the Stone Age? Fred must have missed the news of the administration's intelligence estimate in July deeming Al Qaeda rejuvenated and "a persistent and evolving terrorist threat" to Americans.
But these tidy figures hide a harsh and more complex reality: Because of regional geology, ocean currents, and shifts in gravitational pull caused by changes on Earth's surface, such as the melting of massive ice sheets, the ocean does not rise evenly everywhere.
Still, the relative peace of the locale cannot hide the harsh reality of what it took to arrive in Budapest, a trip that can take between three weeks and six months.
While these statements are true to some extent, both can be convenient excuses hiding a harsher truth.
And it doesn't help to try and hide the harsher side of life from your children, such as poverty and homelessness; the children will eventually see it and for many who do notice it, they become very aware of the need to give, share and be of some help, especially when they see other children in distress.
Or he could have stalked women and men hiding from the harsh midday sun in the shade of low trees.
The panopticon society is here to stay, and little that we think, do or say is hidden from the harsh gaze of the UK government.
Allowing large revelations to leak from small incidents (like Nana's decidedly nonchildlike language when playing with her toys), Ms. Massadian scatters clues to a past that is hidden and perhaps harsh.
It is not known whether Mr. Shahzad was among them, and there is no evidence that Mr. Shahzad visited the cleric in Yemen where he was believed to be hiding in a harsh region of desert and mountains.
