The public-finance targets look either broken or thoroughly bent.
Share prices are down, making targets look cheap.
Still, although the targets "look challenging," Mr. Kumar said, "they are really very conservative.
From his remote Transylvanian village, he drilled into the biographies of targets, looking for details that helped him guess passwords.
This is a ritual that encourages people to splash colors on one another, a practice that often leaves the targets looking like multihued Rorschach tests.
The first deal removes a competitor, potentially raising the profitability of all firms and making other targets look attractive to acquisitive bosses.
And using drones to take down human targets looks more like computer gaming, with other people's lives at stake, than responsible international behavior.
How are your year-end retail targets looking?
The transformations basically just make the targets look like rich people, but the journey to get there repeatedly delights.
These 'global stocktakes' would measure collective progress towards global targets, looking at the whole spectrum of actions including mitigation, adaptation, financing, and technology development and transfer.
The targets look to continue to build on Clinton's gains with college-educated and non-white voters put off by Trump.
