That's to say, it's not just the starting point that's fallen, but also the rate at which we can safely make up lost ground.
Reducing federal spending alone is insufficient to restore economic growth to anything approaching its post-World-War-II, 3.2% annual real-growth trend, much less make up lost ground.
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Part of the problem for older investors, say industry experts, is that the funds aren't designed to make up lost ground especially as they near the target.
Still only 43, and facing his first full term as opposition leader with no obvious challenger, Mr Latham has the luxury of time to make up lost ground.
Not only are their traditional markets, such as the US and Europe, shrinking, but Chinese and Russian companies, buoyed by their governments' investments, are making inroads in overseas markets, making it more difficult for companies such as Lockheed Martin and BAE to make up lost ground by selling internationally.
Samsung's entry into the market represents a chance to make up for lost ground.
If he expects to make up the lost ground, Hispanics cannot be an afterthought.
Germany was down by 5.9% or so, owing to its export dependence, but has scope to make up the lost ground as trade rebounds.
With a significant gap between the clubs in terms of sustained recent success, Redknapp says his team cannot expect to make up the lost ground overnight.
Without the separation, it could be easy for your trading strategy to overcome your investment strategy, especially if you start to lose money and you put in even more resources to make up for lost ground.
Of the two celebrity speakers this week on the subject, Bill Gates missed the Net completely, then tried to make up for lost ground with the usual Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) policy of annihilating anyone ahead of them.
At some time over the coming years German prices are likely to make up some of that lost ground.
He still has a long way to go to make up the ground he lost following the infamous IPO, but Zuckerberg is on the right track to reaching his previous heights.
Supporters like this aspect because they say it would force the Bank of England to do more, right now, to make up the economic ground lost since 2007, even if inflation overshoots.
Obama will be praised for his performance, but it remains to be seen if he will make up the ground he has lost over the past two weeks.
Ferguson will be disappointed United lost the opportunity to make up ground on Chelsea but counterpart Moyes will be elated at his coup of beating both Chelsea and United in successive home league games.
How quickly economies make up lost time will depend on where they have ceded ground.
"We're going to have to work very hard and have things go our way as we lost a lot against Pakistan and have to make up a lot of ground, " he said.
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