Many of his Agenda 2010 measures still have to be implemented, he argues, and society can digest only so much at a time.
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But the government says the legal-aid system is among the most expensive in the world and is costing taxpayers too much at a time when resources are limited - hence the removal of some qualification criteria.
That, as with so much else at a time of financial turmoil, is mere speculation.
However, at current, its something of a headache because a refinery can only output so much of a given product at a time.
Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo didn't cancel their overdraft programs, and some inside Bank of America groused that it couldn't afford to give up that much revenue at a critical time.
The likeliest outcome is therefore neither a sudden, history-altering reduction in defence spending, nor a quick fix that lets Congress wriggle out of its trap, but a drawn-out and perhaps salutary election-year debate about how much defence to buy at a time of distress.
And so there was a danger for Barack Obama of looking unresponsive, of staying too much on the sidelines, at a time when the public was demanding a more activist approach.
To borough president Molinaro, thank you so much for your leadership at a time when the folks here on this island were obviously going through extraordinarily difficult times, the people of Long Island who are going through really tough times.
"If you want to introduce differential, it's much easier to do it at a time when pay's increasing more quickly so you can, for example, freeze pay in some regions and raise it more quickly in others, " he said.
It is rather as though a household with lots of cash sitting idle in a low-interest bank account was at the same time paying a much higher interest rate on its debts.
But the new lending standards, which have gone from an easy extreme to a much more difficult one, have left small businesses stranded at a time when they need loans the most.
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Questioned by Conservative ex-cabinet minister Peter Lilley about how he would justify devoting much parliamentary time to Lords reform in the coming year, at a time of economic crisis, Mr Clegg rather pointedly noted that parliament had also devoted quite a lot of time to changing constituency boundaries - an exercise beloved of Conservative high command.
At one point, out of sheer enthusiasm, I wrote a letter to a newspaper I admired very much at the time called PM.
Democratic control of the Senate also meant that Bush's appointments to the government's judicial branch had a much harder time at confirmation.
At a time when much contemporary art has a taste of cardboard about it, it is encouraging to see a true original.
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And I think our generation has so much time by themselves at a computer that folk music is something that feels a little more organic or tangible.
The community dates back about a century, a response to land shortages in El Salvador - a country about a fifth the size of Honduras, but with a much larger population at that time.
"It smacks of desperation that the Scottish government and the city council are putting so much faith in this risky scheme at a time when retailers aren't investing and consumers aren't spending, " he said.
Those reforms were a much-needed incentive for employees to build up their pensions at a time when many employers were abdicating responsibility for providing a decent income in retirement.
The sale gives Times Co. a financial cushion at a time when the outlook for print, though much improved from a couple years ago, remains murky.
Nobody in Congress had ever heard of a weapons program costing that much, so by the time senior Pentagon officials appeared at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 19 to explain the new cost estimates, they faced a firestorm of criticism.
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In reality, they looked very much like a straight swap for a prior option grant that was, at the time, miserably underwater (exercise price far in excess of stock price).
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What it actually did was come off the gold standard, thus devaluing the currency by some 25% (deserately needed for Churchill had rejoined it at much too high a rate years earlier) and cut government spending at the same time.
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At a time when so much in Washington divides us, the fight against this disease has united us across parties and across presidents.
We extended or increased unemployment benefits not just to help those families but also to make sure that there was some demand in the economy at a time when so much demand had been lost.
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Far more than just a horse race, the Kentucky Derby is a singular cultural event, a long weekend of non-stop fun, spectacle, excitement, galas and memories, and while Louisville has much to offer at any time, once a year it is transformed into the place to be for the entire country, complete with unique cuisine and drink.
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Carter-Williams did a terrific job of dealing with one thing at a time, so much so that he was chosen as the top player in the East Regional for helping No. 4 seed Syracuse beat No. 1 seed Indiana, then No. 3 seed Marquette, to make it to the Final Four for the first time since winning the 2003 NCAA championship.
Those who lose their jobs in their mid to late fifties, for example, have a much harder time recovering their professional footing than those let go at younger ages, with a good chunk not obtaining another position for more than a year after losing their jobs.
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