Individual incentives shift so far from the stated corporate goal that they actively work against it.

All of them knew about his stated goal, but not a single one knew what he really had in mind.

"Olmert is blamed," he said, "but he had no good alternatives to reach his stated goals."

Given that his stated goal was for millions more than he got, Boras probably didn't do more than any other agent might have done.

After all, he hadn't reached his stated goal of having me, which was the nicest way I could put it to myself.

Neptune Towers' stated goal is "To enable the listeners to keep both feet off the ground."

With his stated goal to tell the story from beginning to end, he will not truncate the story to fit into an arbitrary number of volumes.

He smiled on television on Sunday as his party scored gains, though it did not reach his stated goal of 200 seats.

He did not meet his stated goal of 10.17 here, a failure that will cost him 25 percent of his $250,000 appearance fee.