As was pointed out recently in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun by Koizumi-government economics minister Takenaka Heizo, what is missing in the proposal is any adjustment in pension benefits or other measures to manage its costs.
Most economists and commentators I listen to, including conservatives like David Brooks of the New York Times and Jim Hamilton of UCSD, say that reducing the deficit will require both a reduction in spending and an upward adjustment in tax rates, or closing loopholes.
To me, Social Memories is another flashpoint in our adjustment into a fully digital culture.
"The real issue for the property market remains the collapse in transactions rather than the necessary adjustment in prices, " he added.
Normally, the agency would conduct parallel surveys to see if there might be some unaccounted-for anomalies or glitches in that adjustment.
Those who try to do so through physiological research look for a technical solution to suffering in an adjustment of the brain's neuro-mechanics.
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.
The company also said it expects to see a temporary bump in gross margins in the March quarter, reflecting adjustment in costs from a quicker-than-expected switch to streaming from DVD rentals by some subscribers.
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Bolivia engaged in its first structural-adjustment programme in 1987, and has done most of what the outside world has required of it since then.
Moreover, abandoning the gold standard in favor of free floating currencies was supposed to eliminate currency crises and lead to an automatic adjustment in trade imbalances.
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The report merely repeats what it has said before - that "greater near-term flexibility in the path of fiscal adjustment should be considered in the light of lacklustre private demand".
They make no such adjustment in their paper, partly because of uncertainties surrounding the cycle.
But the explanation lies in the rapid adjustment of the leptin system to the environment.
Although higher than last year, only 1, 138 students have found places in the "adjustment" process, out of 408, 000.
Included in the positive adjustment to stock basis is an increase for tax-exempt income realized by the S corporation.
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This is, more or less, the world of adjustment in the euro zone.
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Outside of the U.S., growth prospects will also be limited by fiscal consolidation, business uncertainty and structural adjustment in Europe.
Some research suggests that such high deficits tend to be unwound quickly, by a rapid downward adjustment in the currency.
The adjustment in the housing market began earlier there than anywhere else.
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.
Now that investors are less willing to lend money, a rapid, jarring adjustment in which expenditures are brought down into alignment with receipts seems unavoidable.
To prevent that, the government will have to be harsh with public-sector unions and in its annual adjustment of the minimum wage on May 1st.
Delaying the natural adjustment in the dollar and bond yields is likely to mean that, when the inevitable correction comes, it will be much more painful.
Taxpayers, including the self-employed, who were eligible for the credit but did not have an adjustment in their withholding could have the credit refunded at tax time.
With the resulting inevitable adjustment in prospects for the gasoline-powered economy will come a major change in public perception about whether we can just keep driving gasoline-powered cars.
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So if we just made a little bit of an adjustment in terms of the cap on Social Security, that would do a significant amount to stabilize the system.
But there is little doubt that at some point in time an adjustment of this type will likely have to happen if there is any hope to rebalance this economy.
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Trying to stimulate the housing market by purchasing additional MBS only postpones the adjustment in housing prices that still needs to occur to bring about a balancing of demand and supply.
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Even after a good deal of EQ adjustment in iTunes, it still feels like there's something holding back the highs, something of a fog keeping them from being all they could be.
Bernanke responded that in his more than four years on the Fed's policy-making board, he had never heard anyone suggest any adjustment in policy should be made because of an upcoming election.
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