"I am fulfilling a minimum goal."

Accordingly, the panel said, the United States should strive, as a "minimum goal," to reduce medical errors by 50 percent in the next five years.

Harvard certainly had minimum goals for minority enrollment, even if it had no specific number firmly in mind.

She added: "From our perspective, 5,000 units are a minimum goal.

His minimum goal appears to have been the seizure of Khuzestan province, home to Iran's oil industry.

States could adopt the commission's standards or develop their own as long as they met the minimum goals.

Urine output is also monitored, with a minimum goal of 0.5 ml/kg/h.

The airport set a minimum goal of 20 percent minority and 12 percent female interest.

The following year, the audit said, the region's performance improved to only slightly short of minimum goals.

But in general the international response has been both grudging and slow, with $12.5 million more needed to reach the World Food Program's minimum goal.