When there are multiple objectives like these, tradeoffs are likely, both on the policy side and on the budgetary side.
Objectives, like uniforms, are part of the new urban catechism of disciplined, outcome-oriented education.
Sustainable development means achieving objectives like poverty reduction without further damaging the environment.
Each would have focused on specific objectives, like improving teacher quality and expanding parents' choice of public schools.
It is not clear how hard Mr. Clinton will fight for his objectives, like a major increase in education spending.
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Darfurian rebels share many of the same objectives, like addressing the historic marginalization of Sudan's hinterlands.
"The extent of money that it generated is diverted to clandestine and sinister objectives like drug trafficking and terrorist activities," he said.
The answer, according to Sonja Lyubomirsky, psychologist and author of The How of Happiness, is striving towards specific career goals, rather than material objectives like more money.
And in some cases, American drone killings suited Pakistani objectives, like the strike that killed the Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
After all, many of the objectives — like bolstering America's manufacturing might and promoting access to foreign markets — dovetail nicely with G.E.'s own global industrial businesses.
While union leaders say they are championing the concerns of Main Street, their antibank campaign has certainly advanced some of labor's longtime objectives, like unionizing workers.
