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• v  fall short of (the runway) in a landing
• v  shoot short of or below (a target)

• War being what it is, War II's propaganda emphasizing isolated horrors seemed likely to undershoot the mark.

• overshoot

News & Articles

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• Bank of Canada Could Lean a Little More Dovishly Wednesday
  The Bank of Canada is expected to keep rates steady at its final policy decision of 2013 and reaffirm the neutral stance adopted in October. There's a chance it may sound a touch more dovish, voicing greater concern about inflation undershooting its 2% target.
  Dec. 4, 2013 - Wall Street Journal Blogs

Quotes

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• Glenn Stevens in ForexTV.com
  Reductions in interest rates under our inflation targeting framework would be associated with an assessment that inflation was going to undershoot the target rather than risk overshooting it. I don't think those conditions are in place,...
• Ben Bernanke in Los Angeles Times
  It's a very big problem and we don't want to undershoot,Bernanke said.
• Charlie Bean in FXstreet.com The Foreign Exchange Market
  In that case, the slowdown in growth could be even more pronounced and/or be more persistent, leading inflation to undershoot the target in the medium term,said Bean.