The GDP figures to be released in June will confirm that he did just about achieve that, although, given the staggering amount of taxpayers' money that Mr Obuchi poured into public works, ailing companies and banks that were about to go bust, it would have been a surprise if the economy had not begun to show flickers of life.
For Ali, it was not just about achieving the target of the last four finish, but for a team that is often reduced to playing neighbours, it was a chance to break out of regional concerns to prove they are a genuine continental force.
What's more, the event in Canada is not just about achieving a clear round, there's money at stake for the 30-year-old from Peebles - 1m euros, to be precise.
It's not just about achieving something". Sushant's three previous starring roles in Kai Po Che!, Shuddh Desi Romance and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy were critically admired and B.O. successes, which could well be surpassed by this film.
For him, it was never just about achieving his success and breaking free of his bonds.
This case is not just about ethics, but about achieving a solution to conflicting interests.
Mr Duncan Smith said the welfare reforms were not just about setting-up a working IT system, which had suffered glitches, but about achieving cultural change.
"When I come out here [on the golf course] I don't think about Tiger Woods or what my name is, I just think about achieving my own goals and playing my own game," she tells BBC Sport.
By Elizabeth Spencer The New Yorker, April 16 , 1966P. 50 Sara had known Gowan Palmer as a boy in school back in Arkansas, but she & her husband Paul had preferred to think of him as an artist just about to achieve fame since they'd met him at a party in Rome a year ago.
