Yet, this is what the market is betting on: that the U.S. will grow out of this someday, somehow, just because we are not Europe.
It's an obsession shared by little boys the world over--like being a fireman or an astronaut--but most of them grow out of it.
But many food allergies are milder and something children grow out of.
We wake up every morning focused on the need to create more jobs and have the economy grow even faster and to continue to grow out of this recovery.
One London teacher told the BBC News website she was surprised to be told by her school that if teachers spotted such signs they should "ignore them, because self-harming is a phase they usually grow out of".
In August of 2003, the influential American Academy of Pediatrics released its first policy statement on how physicians should deal with the issue of childhood overweight, a refreshing development from an organization that for too long dealt with the issue by saying that parents should simply wait for their kids to grow out of their chubbiness.
In New York or Boston you can thrive as a nonprofit executive, high-end consultant or financier, but if you are the owner of a business that wants to grow you're out of luck.
That's still part of the emergency effort to help build the economy and grow it coming out of the recession.
To that end California still represents the best opportunity for the country to grow out of our current situation.
"My family thought it was a crazy hobby that perhaps I might grow out of, " he says.
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Many walls are left unpainted and crumbling, and trees still grow out of the occasional ruined building.
To pessimists that means Blockbuster can't grow its way out of its problems.
And in these economically straitened times, there's a conflict with the way many politicians and businessmen see the immediate future and the need to "grow" our way out of recession.
If a stock undergoes more than 2 stock splits in a short amount of time, it may be running out of room to grow.
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Evidence is growing for a notion long observed by doctors and parents: Some children with autism appear to grow out of their symptoms and recover fully.
This sector has been a sore spot for many Koreans since, and some of the labor resistance may grow out of that and other cultural clashes.
It was then that he caught the attention of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, who throughout the 1990s was creating an empire by buying out distressed family-owned fashion houses that were running out of cash to grow their businesses.
What no Italian government has succeeded in doing is tackling the endemic corruption, political interference, bureaucratic inefficiency and broken justice system that has deterred investment, stifled innovation and destroyed any hope the country might grow its way out of its debt burden.
The background: The Energy Act of 2007 laid out a plan to grow ethanol use from a base of 6.5 billion gallons.
But don't minimize the impact of the unemployment relief for working families, of the payroll tax relief, and of the continuation of the incentives to grow jobs, which will trigger more credit coming out of the banks.
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France, on the other hand, plans to grow out of its deficit at a leisurely pace.
The most heartening and invigorating thing about Foster's design sense is its clarity, the insistence that the poetics of a building must grow out of its legible and fully expressed structure.
Activision expects further declines as gamers grow out of the game and move on to alternatives.
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Before I take your questions, I just want to talk a little bit about our continuing efforts to dig ourselves out of this recession and to grow our economy.
Innovative companies and jobs are a function of investment, but when money is being devalued investment in the intellectual concepts that actually grow the economy lose out in favor of inflation hedges.
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