We will set a national goal of making our schools once again the best in the world by the year 2000.

The road to improved education began long before the national goals were written.

We will have local control, with one national goal: excellence for every child.

Our national goal should be no net loss of wetlands.

Reformers say: Let's have national goals but let teachers reach them in their own way.

Tonight let us set a clear national goal: All children should be able to read on their own by the third grade.

In making the announcement, the companies said that by sharing information they could cut costs and make the project a national goal.

"We have fallen behind in our national goal to make work pay," the Secretary said.

In fact, the city beat the 2000 national goal of 7.0 two years early.

Until a few years ago, there was a rationale for all this, and it lay in a single national goal.