The arguments yesterday suggested that the government was still some distance from making a case against its sole declared target, A. Alfred Taubman, Sotheby's largest shareholder who resigned as its chairman last February.
Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive, said in an interview after the announcement that Apple would have been able to hit its publicly declared target of a million iPhones sold in the United States by the end of this month, even without a price cut.
But still, the argument goes, 16-to 34-year-old viewers – the declared target audience for London Live – have turned their backs on television.
All day on TV sets in conference corners members of the hated "Westminster elite" joined David Cameron and Ed Miliband – Doncaster North's "champagne socialist millionaire MP" is Ukip's declared target here – in debating the bombing of Iraq.
Officially, Chinese growth is rock-steady at 7percentt per year, which happens to be the government's declared target, but private economists' estimates mostly range between 4percent and 66 percent.
Its declared commercial target is the 25-35 year-old generation Y and the brand is named after that memetic internet beast, the unicorn.
Unlike the probability of false alarm, which measures the probability of falsely declaring a target for a single test, the FDR measures the fraction of declared targets that are false alarms, that is, it provides information about the entire set of M hypotheses instead of just one.
This way, only if a year-end "profit" exists would a rebate be declared, targeted or otherwise.
President Obama has declared targets for cutting emissions from power plants, and China is getting serious about cutting coal use.
