The guarded approach to hiring that has been evident over the last few years was sustained in part by concerns over the fiscal cliff during the time of the survey.
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The first is the fiscal cliff, which is extremely time-sensitive and has to do with December 31st deadlines that trigger, if Congress doesn't act, substantial tax increases for everyone, including the middle class, and that trigger across-the-board spending cuts, the combination of which would, by many estimates, not be very good for the economy.
The smart money is on the U.S. falling over the fiscal cliff for a short period of time before everything gets ironed out at some point early next year.
Maybe the market is entering the domain where the political incentives are such that a resolution is more likely after going over the cliff for a short period of time?
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Komen is sticking to the story that they had no choice but to pull the funding once Republican Congressman Cliff Sterns, a long-time opponent of Planned Parenthood, began a Congressional investigation to determine if Planned Parenthood has violated the rules that prohibit them from spending taxpayer money on abortion services.
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The shock of falling down the fiscal cliff might reveal that it is finally time to get serious.
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"The fiscal cliff deal will make me spend more time working in the business rather than on the business, " he says.
He has the chance to say that as we finish out the holiday season and the year there is still time to avert the fiscal cliff and that he knows how to do it.
One of the more overlooked provisions of the so-called Fiscal Cliff tax deal that arrived just in time for the market open January 2, 2013 is the renewed allowance of Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) from Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs).
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The first time we go to Sea Cliff, where Alice lives, she points up a hill at fog sneaking through the eucalyptus trees and says that her old school is up there: an all-girls school that her little sisters go to now.
Mr. Norquist says Republicans should tough it out even if it means going over the tax cliff, pass a bill one more time to extend current tax rates in January, and then Mr. Obama will be the one to bend and sign it.
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Businesses are already dealing with the consequences of a lackluster holiday period, a time where unease about the fiscal cliff restrained shopping.
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The fact is we have two months because of the fiscal cliff agreement, and that is not a great deal of time, and the President will, and the White House will, engage with Congress on those matters in I think the relatively near term.
President Obama believes there is still time for lawmakers to find a solution to the fiscal cliff by the Jan. 1 deadline.
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Essentially, she had hit a glass cliff: Dick Fuld had brought her in as CFO at a time when it was too late to save the firm.
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The U.S. Treasury still expects to push up against its borrowing limit later this year, according to a funding update out Wednesday, but has access to emergency methods that can buy enough time for lawmakers to cut a deal on the fiscal cliff.
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The cliff exists because several temporary measures are set to expire at the same time.
Live video showed small sections of the cliff continuing to fall at 10:45 a.m. local time as people removed furniture and other belongings.
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"They don't believe it's going to happen, because every time we come up to the debt ceiling or the fiscal cliff or the sequester, the government just passes the next bill, " said Mr. Herman, who is a Casa Grande City Council member.
Next time I try it, I'll probably plunge over a cliff while I'm reading co-ordinates.
Or is it perhaps time to kick the space exploration can down the road and over the cliff?
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For a time they stored large amounts of ammunition in ancient caves built into the cliff at the feet of the largest of the two Buddhas.
Both teams were playing with real ambition and when Cipriani landed a penalty either side of half-time to cut the gap to six points it looked as though a cliff-hanger was in the works.
In 2007 everything seemed perfectly fine, prosperity was all around and it was just the sort of time when no one could imagine that the world economy was going off a cliff.
Though Wilson and Burke share a long history dating to their time at Providence College in Rhode Island, Wilson was hired in 2008 by interim GM Cliff Fletcher.
Yet those who see prices trading sideways said that view of the debt ceiling talks might not hold this time around, given how gold sold off in late December and early January over the fiscal cliff squabbling.
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Mathai testified earlier that she slept in a closet, worked long days without vacation, days off or sick time and wasn't allowed to leave the property, a palatial stone mansion on a cliff overlooking the Mohawk River.
The World Series kicks-off tonight in San Francisco and millions will tune in to Fox to watch Cliff Lee face-off against Tim Lincucum (Cablevision subscribers will have to find something else to occupy their time as their battle with Fox rages on).
Facing tough budget decisions at home over the "fiscal cliff" it was essential for the US to avoid the impression that it was giving away more cash at this time.
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