Damon is slotted for Invictus, a Clint Eastwood Oscar-baiter about Nelson Mandela, but then he'll appear in The Adjustment Bureau, a big-budget sci-fi romance from Universal Films.

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Implementing pro-growth reforms as part of the fiscal adjustment process can minimize any economic cost that budget cuts may have.

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In other words, the 2013 budget will be repeated in the following four years with no adjustment for inflation (ie 508m per year).

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It is true that Greece can survive within the euro only with a gruelling downward adjustment of wages and prices, which demands painful budget cuts and structural reforms.

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Budget constraints are pushing Congress in the opposite direction: trade-adjustment assistance, a long-standing scheme to help those deemed to have lost their jobs to globalisation, expired recently.

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There is an irony in Mr Rutte's predicament: his government was the most strident in demanding budget cuts and reforms elsewhere, and yet has fallen apart over a more modest adjustment than those imposed on Greece and Spain.

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So to satisfy the accounting rule, all the adjustment in the private-sector deficit had to be accommodated by a rise in the budget deficit.

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