Most states are legally barred from running deficits, so when their revenues fall in times of recession they make painful cuts, firing workers and ending programmes thus exacerbating the downturn rather than offsetting it.
"I think every player in one way or another goes through a tough time, and I think it is not how many times you fall but how many times you get back up, " Ivanovic, who this year has been working with Steffi Graf's former coach Heinz Gunthardt, told reporters.
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Should I ever fall on hard times, it's reassuring to know: There's a straight-back chair waiting for me.
Broadband download speeds in the UK dramatically fall at peak times, according to new research by online comparison site uSwitch.
"The welfare state and the NHS are there to support our constituents when they fall on difficult times, " Mr Spencer said.
He worries that, despite the compensation, the family will again fall on hard times unless he or his sons can find better-paid employment.
He said the co-ordination of social security legislation was portrayed as a "safety net" for hard-working self-employed people who fall on hard times.
Like council tax on homes, the bills fail to adjust downwards when you fall on hard times, and nor do they rise when income booms.
It is one of states' top two expenditures, along with education, and has ballooned in recent years as more people lose jobs and otherwise fall on hard times.
When necessary, though, he has defended the waiting-list pledge, arguing that politicians ought to keep their promises, and that waiting times fall in parallel with the length of the lists.
The Nikkei 225 price-to-earnings ratio now stands at about 18.7 times, higher than about 16 times in the U.S. and 12 times in Europe, but analysts say that ratio will fall to around 16 times if earnings figures come in line with forecasts.
It was the first earnings call for Thompson, who joined the Times last fall after a long career at the BBC.
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Senators John Kerry and Lindsey Graham, in an editorial in the New York Times last fall, laid out a plan for an energy bill that includes nuclear power.
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Giving them a place to stay isn't dealing with the kind of underlying issue, which is there's a very small number of people who are addicted to drugs, are mentally ill, have severe problems with alcohol, and they live on the streets and every winter they fall down drunk four times and get taken to the hospital and have to get a cat scan.
"Anti-Western and Extremist Views Pervade Saudi Schools, " read the headline on a New York Times report last fall.
The number of puts, which is a bet the stock price will fall, is nearly three times as high as calls, a bet the stock will rise.
To do that, Plum will need to test some key assumptions over the next year Can it really rent out clothes three times before they fall apart?
According to Mr Gref, in 2006 the Russian workforce will decrease by 30, 000, while the next year will see a fall of more than 10 times that, culminating in a drop of half a million in 2008.
Microsoft is still considered a growth stock and probably won't fall all the way to 13 times earnings.
Someone whose personal information is taken in a data breach is nearly 10 times more likely to fall prey to ID thieves.
Horses are seven times more likely to fall at the first, he says, than at a standard fence on another part of the racetrack.
Last year the army put down an attempted coup, as it has many times since Marcos's fall.
The Sunday Times saw its Scottish sales fall significantly, down from 60, 500 to 54, 100 - a drop of 10.6%.
The Los Angeles Times saw average daily circulation fall 4.2% to 815, 723, while the Chicago Tribune slipped 2.1% to 566, 827 and Newsday of Melville, N.
Too many Americans have an overstuffed sock drawer, filled with cheaply made products that fall apart and must be replaced several times a year, argues Thomas Lee, a co-founder of Goodhew Socks, based in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Please know that not all PR people fall into these unfortunate categories, though at times it may seem so.
The final figures for last autumn's university intake in the UK show a fall in applications from men which was four times that among women.
But note that if the Dow is to return to its long-term average of 15 times earnings, it must either fall to 7700 or stay under 10, 000 for another few years.
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