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target and dates
As these target dates were missed, the Phase I process was later commenced on 1 November 2002, with Phase II and III beginning on 16 November 2003 and 21 February 2004 respectively.
* Emphasis is on planning, time schedules, target dates, budgets and implementation of an entire system at one time.
At some point past the target date, the target-date fund may be merged into the income fund, which will then be owned by all investors whose target dates are some time in the past.
Since a provider may have many target dates, this can greatly reduce duplication of work.
He stated that continued deferred maintenance would become a safety issue which he would not tolerate and his management team implemented Amtrak's first system-wide comprehensive capital program with planned target dates and budgeting.
In order to do this she re-baselined all projects to change target dates to many years later, and budgets to much larger, sometimes 300 % of the original budget. Under her leadership, she launched NextGen − the shift to a satellite-based system that will modernize air transportation.

target and were
A body of redcoats were seen marching down a nearby slope, a tempting target for the riflemen, who threw a volley into their ranks and `` messed up '' the smart formation considerably.
It would be even more valuable because that same aircraft could immediately destroy any targets it discovered -- no need to wait for a missile to come all the way from the United States with the chance that the target, if it were mobile, would be gone.
All these techniques help Poirot attain his principal target: " For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …"
* 1991 – Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York during 3 days, after 2 black kids were struck by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
* In the mid-1970s several armies started equipping their artillery observation teams with laser rangefinders, ground surveillance radars and night vision devices, these were soon followed by inertial orienting and navigating devices to improve the accuracy of target locations.
For the first few decades of indirect fire, the firing data were often calculated by the observer who then adjusted the fall of shot onto the target.
After World War II predicted methods were invariably applied but the fall of shot usually needed adjustment because of inaccuracy in locating the target, the proximity of friendly troops or the need to engage a moving target.
In radars of the 1950s these were single target tracking devices using a nutating horn as part of the antenna.
The comparison of these two signals enabled logic circuits to determine the true target reflection signal, even if the target were to eject radar-reflecting chaff.
Once " stand off " nuclear weapon designs were developed, bombers did not need to pass over the target at high altitude to make an attack ; they could fire and turn away to escape the blast.
The most difficult steps in the synthesis of berkelium were its separation from the final products and the production of sufficient quantities of americium for the target material.
As an alternative means of producing long-lived bohrium isotopes suitable for a chemical study, the synthesis of < sup > 267 </ sup > Bh and < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh were attempted in 1995 by the team at GSI using the highly asymmetric reaction using an einsteinium-254 target.
The Romans ' target were thus the tribes which inhabited Moesia, namely ( from West to East ) the Triballi, Moesi and those Getae who dwelt South of the Danube.
The Bastarnae were also a target because they had recently subjugated the Triballi, whose territory lay on the southern bank of the Danube between the tributary rivers Utus ( Vit ) and Ciabrus ( Tsibritsa ), with their chief town at Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria ).
On the evening of 22 June, Nelson's fleet passed the French in the darkness, overtaking the slow invasion convoy without realising how close they were to their target.
The government had a target to build 400, 000 new houses a year to replace those which had been destroyed in the war, but shortages of materials and manpower meant that less than half this number were built.
Many other shock-related changes take place within both impactor and target as the shock wave passes through, and some of these changes can be used as diagnostic tools to determine whether particular geological features were produced by impact cratering.
In April 1917, when German U-boats were sinking many British ships with torpedoes, the marine artist Norman Wilkinson devised dazzle camouflage, which paradoxically made ships more visible but harder to target.
Carbines were short enough to be loaded and fired from horseback but this was rarely done-a moving horse is a very unsteady platform, and once halted a soldier can load and fire more easily if dismounted, which also makes him a smaller target.
Among them were sabot rounds, hollow-charge projectiles, and proximity fuses, all of which increased the effectiveness of cannon against specific target.
These arrows were then shot “ along a flat trajectory ” at a target.
Twice in Europe's history, for example, Romani people were the target of genocide.
Prisoners were blinded, dragged behind horses, and used for target practice.

target and adjusted
If actual spending for a given year exceeds the spending target for that year, reimbursement rates are adjusted downward by decreasing the Conversion Factor ( CF ) for RBRVS RVUs.
Because the quality / bit-rate is adjusted in real-time ( open-loop ), the global quality will be slightly lower than that obtained by encoding in VBR with exactly the right quality setting to meet the target average bitrate.
There is no single universally accepted system of writing Russian using the Latin script — in fact there are a huge number of such systems: some are adjusted for a particular target language ( e. g. German or French ), some are designed as a librarian's transliteration, some are prescribed for Russian travellers ' passports ; the transcription of some names is purely traditional.
In addition, the target continues to approach as the bomber dives, allowing the aim to be progressively adjusted over time.
In these formats the target PPI of the bitmaps is adjusted to match when the target print size of the file is changed.
A plot of average overall vehicle fuel economy ( CAFE ) for new model year passenger cars, the required by law CAFE standard target fuel economy value ( CAFE standard ) for new model year passenger cars, and fuel prices, adjusted for inflation, shows that there has been little variation over the past 20 years.
Chasing a rain adjusted target of 229 off 39 overs, Fleming hit 134 off just 132 deliveries as New Zealand cruised to a 9-wicket victory over a team they had struggled against in the past.
The D / L method was applied which adjusted the target to 268.
Keeping his head still, he then adjusted the aiming rod so its cross wires bisected the target.
The target values for soil are adjusted for the organic matter ( humus ) content and soil fraction < 0. 2 µm ( lutum-Latin, meaning " mud " or " clay ").
The operator adjusted the mechanism until two half-images of the target lined up in a complete picture.
At the culmination of the 33rd over, with Sri Lanka still trailing the adjusted Duckworth-Lewis target by 37 runs, the umpires suspended the game due to bad light.
" The Fed adjusted the rate on October 22, after the initial rate they set October 6 failed to keep the benchmark U. S. overnight interest rate close to their policy target, and again on November 5 for the same reason.
Unlike the House of Commons, seats in the Canadian Senate are not adjusted by population ( an exception to this was set out under the Manitoba Act, in which Manitoba's allotment increased until the province reached a target population ).
Using fast-reacting wire-guided or radio-command missiles meant the total engagement time was kept to a minimum, as there was little or no " lock-on " time required ; the operator simply fired and adjusted the missile's flight path onto the target while it flew.
Success or failure was determined either by rolling against a set difficulty target, or a player's own skill, or a hybrid of both, adjusted by circumstances.
The fuse length was determined by the amount of gunpowder in the paper tube, and was adjusted depending on the distance that the missile had to cover so that it would explode on the target.

2.230 seconds.