With the 17% decrease in manufacturing since 2007, a large public focus on austerity, a recession that rivals the Great Depression, and unemployment stuck at 9.5%, the only realistic position to take is that the future is now.
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The second is that everything else that the government owes in the future is now a great deal more inflation protected than it used to be.
The real worry is that now and in the future we, and the rest of Europe, won't have the military resources and the will power to do our part of the heavy lifting.
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The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now.
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In that way the future is always now, because it is always time to consider what you do and why you do it.
The science of measuring of customer experience, its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business is now a well-established tool in the hands of marketers.
Beyond a little geeky nostalgia, the project hopes to safeguard the web's earliest days, before it became the ubiquitous phenomenon it is now, so that future generations can enjoy (and scoff) at the web's origins.
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What matters most is that a person is functioning normally now and into the future.
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As if pinned to the spot by his impaired vision, the result of a detached retina, he seems to recognise that his future is now based on Greece staying in the euro.
And the indications are that she remains convinced that nuclear as a "bridge to the sustainable future" is now a bridge too far, so clearly the move away will happen.
There were a few questions, though, when people learned that for the indefinite future, Baker is now going to be home to some 600 trailers.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
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But the admirable feature is that the cuts would occur right now, not at some vague future date.
But just as The Wintel duopoly is now in tatters, the expectation that Google and Facebook will split future revenues from the work that is going on at Mozilla, Samsung, Intel, Jolla, Baidu, LG and elsewhere is open to challenge.
Despite a dip in approval ratings, Pinera is positive on the future and says that now the Chileans are beginning to see the benefits of their labors.
But the most importantly it's the Afghanis who should realise that the war with Russia is over now and they themselves have to define their future now, a future where they do not have to pass to the next generation what they have learned.
At the time of the announcement, Mr Redman said the proposal came as a result of "the continuing difficult economic conditions that the company is facing" and that it had to "take action now" to ensure its future.
Whatever the cause, it is clear that Murdoch and Chernin have now invested a great deal of the company's future in DeWolfe and Anderson, who still run MySpace.
"The good news for the price of gold is that even though the safe-haven appeal for gold has hit a plateau for now, future inflation fear is building as investors believe the U.S. and global economies have bottomed, " says Scott Nystrom, editor of the Gold Stock Strategist newsletter.
The dissenting justices made the point that their duty is to determine what the law is now, not what it should be in the future.
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And Neil Mackinnon, chief economist at VTB Capital, said the future for Greece is far from clear, adding that it was "now probable" that the country would default.
That may cause problems in the future, but for now it is Belgium's greatest strength.
Reinforcing existing defences against possible long-range Iranian missiles is seen as a problem for the future, given that America now says the Iranians are working more on short- and medium-range missiles than on long-range ones.
Whatever that future inflation is going to be is now in the system.
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The future of the mobile industry is being determined now, through the platforms that manufacturers and developers support and the devices that operators select and subsidize.
Mr Aquino has pledged to do all he can to bring peace to Mindanao - and the MILF knows that if an agreement is not reached now, a future president might not be as sympathetic to their cause.
The fear now is that she has established a precedent that future British political leaders will feel compelled to follow, and in so doing may render politics in London as dysfunctionally money-ridden as politics in Washington already is.
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The key is to bridge where we are now to that more prosperous future.
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The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement contains the simple assertion that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations.
But that is a zero-sum game for now, not the future.
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