1.   The Chancellor is boxed in by inflation targets and sterling.

2.   Another threat comes from politicians who are demanding that the Bank of Japan adopt an inflation target to battle price declines.

3.   As they grant more independence to their central banks, more nations are setting explicit inflation targets, or encouraging monetary policy-makers to do so.

4.   Birch also wants to know what steps Brash will take to minimize the possibility of a further breach of the inflation target.

5.   Both direct inflation targets and intermediate money-supply targets will be examined this year.

6.   After months of debate behind closed doors, Duisenberg announced that the bank would use both money supply and inflation targets.

7.   Colombia has failed to reach its annual inflation targets each of the last six years.

8.   Even though the central bank says the inflation target may be reached, it warned that there are still risks to its two-year forecast.

9.   Finance Minister Dan Meridor has declined to set a multiyear inflation target.

10.   Finance Secretary Roberto de Ocampo said yesterday that he expected the government to achieve its inflation target.