For example, New Jersey was the first states to set a target for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
Just over half did not achieve the government's target for reducing MRSA rates by 20% each year.
The government could commit itself to including international aviation in its 60% target for reducing CO2 emissions.
There's another, more famous, 80% statistic: it's the government's latest target for reducing our carbon emissions by 2050.
Although the unemployment rate has declined, the FOMC said it remained "elevated" and set itself a target for reducing the numbers out of work.
Asset sales will help ABB meet its target for reducing debt, he said, adding that he expects the company's structured-finance unit to find a buyer after September.
But they both recognised that the target for reducing pay increases in 1978-79 was too ambitious, ending in political disaster.
If we don't make a big push now, in 2030 we'll be faced, once again, with a missed target for reducing maternal deaths".
Even if we have to accept lower living standards to reach the target for reducing carbon emissions, that need not reduce the real quality of life.
And unless the welfare reform and work bill is amended, the UK won't even have a target for reducing income poverty".
Scientists are calling for an ambitious target for reducing the greenhouse gases which cause climate change, as a successor to the Kyoto protocol.
