Britain, meanwhile, has promised to double development spending by 2010, and this summer pledged to reach the developed countries' long-stated goal of donating 0.7 percent of G.D.P. by 2013.

Asked about the clubs' long-stated goal to attain cost certainty through a salary cap, Harrington said: "We have kind of departed from the cost certainty.

Better Golfing A few weeks ago in California, Mr. Clinton met at least one long-stated pre-50 goal: breaking 80 on the golf course.

He has told foreign reporters that he would not mind seeing Chechnya attain its long-stated goal of becoming a separate country.

The deal with Mr. Perelman, a leading corporate raider, would have brought American Express's holdings in the brokerage down below 50 percent, the company's long-stated goal.

During an interview yesterday he said Reed's long-stated goal had been to buy publications in which the advertising was just as important to the consumer as the editorial material.

His long-stated goal is to hold every world record between 800 meters and 5,000 meters.

Emmett and Jake leave for California, their long-stated goal, while Mal and his sister reunite and decide to rebuild their father's homestead.

After grilling Mr. Markham and other executives, moreover, many analysts concluded that the drug company would not meet its long-stated goal of generating a 20 percent profit margin in 1999.

Democrats, suspecting a design to bolster the case for renewed military aid this fall, still could not reject a proposal articulating their own long-stated goals.