21.   One of five listed companies now sets numerical targets for return on equity.

22.   Pilot projects to shift programs from crude numerical targets to better health services and other social aid have already shown promise in curbing abortion rates, Gu said.

23.   Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto yesterday announced numerical targets to curtail spending.

24.   Some members of Congress and trade policy hawks have criticized the Clinton administration for accepting an agreement which contained no commitment to numerical sales targets.

25.   Speaking just before the end of trading, however, Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura threw cold water on the idea of setting numerical targets to reduce the trade surplus.

26.   Support for numerical targets is limited to France and Austria.

27.   The administration, fortunately, caved in on its demand for numerical targets on auto parts sales.

28.   The bill will include a numerical target for reducing the fiscal deficit as well as an annual target to cut spending, he said.

29.   The central problem is U.S. insistence on numerical targets for Japanese autoparts imports.

30.   The emphasis on numerical targets, he added, provides incentive to officials to ignore illegal sex screening and abortions.