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Lewis felt pressure not only to make testing targets but to meet more ambitious attendance goals.

The European Union also asked Australia about its ability to meet more ambitious targets of a 15% or 20% cut in emissions.

The renewal of interest in fast neutron spectra reactors to meet more ambitious sustainable development criteria (i.e., resource maximisation and waste minimisation), opens a favourable framework for R&D activities in this area.

But negotiations on how to meet even more ambitious targets after 2012 are in danger of coming undone as the economy worsens.

Futures markets do not seem to expect a rise in interest rates until the summer, although many economists now think that any rate increase will come early next year.American consumer confidence improved in January, according to one survey, although it failed to meet economists' more ambitious expectations.

Having written a book a few years ago calling for the development community to grow out of its aid obsession and focus more on what rich countries can do to change some of the structural issues that keep people poor, I now find myself among a seeming minority who insist not only that aid needs to remain, but that it should be increased substantially to meet ever more ambitious global challenges.

I have met more than one ambitious Asian American who inquires about the value of extracurricular activities with an ulterior motive.

The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, which includes the oil company Shell, the automaker Renault and the train builder Alstom, said that meeting the more ambitious, but nonbinding, goal of cutting emissions by 25 percent would help "create the investment climate needed to give the E.U. any chance of competing in the global competition for low-carbon prosperity".

With the strong foundation established this week, North American leaders should take up this additional challenge of supporting Mexico in meeting its more ambitious goal.

If the 1996 rise in carbon emissions is the beginning of a long-term trend rather than merely a blip, then the 2000 target is by no means a sure thing and the chances of meeting the much more ambitious goal for 2010 look remote.In this section Interesting times In the dock Death's sting A tricky transformation Hot air?

The plan under discussion last night by Nato ambassadors meeting in Brussels is more ambitious by far.