"So we ought to be able to, in the next three months, finish out that grand bargain to get us to the point of ... where debt to GDP (gross domestic product) is about 3%, " he said.
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As China continues to gain strength and to use its growing economic resources to gain allies in Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and Europe, it will be imperative for American leaders to learn how to look at issues not only from the U.S. point of view, but also from the point of view of China.
We probably will return to the U.S. at some point. (The pull of family is strong.) For now, we will continue to explore this beautiful country, and get my hands as dirty as possible.
On Friday, the benchmark 10-year yield was up 10.5 basis points at 0.695%, more than twice the low point of 0.315% reached just after the BOJ announced its bond-buying program.
The Patriots clobbered the Jets 45-3 in Foxborough on Dec. 6, the low point of the Jets' season.
It is not even abuse of the system in furtherance of tax avoidance: it is the very point of the system.
They will prevent the two monetary cures from inflicting that bad old J-curve bleeding of the patient to the point of death.
Investors who are bullish on the U.K. housing market also point to the scarcity of land in the U.K. and to an overall shortage of housing.
Finally, Mr. Verwaayen takes credit for the most outrageous pair of predictions, outlandish almost to the point of folly.
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Some folks are quick to argue that all the time wasted and mistakes made as undergraduates is an inevitable part of the college process--maybe even the point of the process.
And that, rather than the details of this bionic-eye lens, is the real point of the exercise.
The 20-year bond yield has moved 0.39 percentage point and the 30-year yield has moved 0.48 percentage point since the beginning of February.
"The inexorable logic of events, " he predicted, would drive Lincoln to make the eradication of slavery the spear point of the war.
Bright Simons with mPedigree created a simple and user-friendly technology to instantly authenticate and ensure the safety of pharmaceuticals at the point of purchase.
Well we want to reassure people that we are not and never have wanted to privatise the NHS. We believe in the NHS as a public service free at the point of use.
"I took the subway for the first time in 10 years, " said Burgos, who took the No. 2 train from his home in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx.
Over the past few weeks, the committee has been hearing from people involved in organ transplantation, from the academic ethicists right through to those who have to have those unimaginably difficult discussions with families at their time of greatest grief about the personal wishes of their loved one at the point of death.
So whereas a few decades ago POS manufacturers would only be interested in designing a machine that suited the needs of the retailer, now they have to take into account the supply warehouse and the point of manufacture.
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Each star has spent most of his career as the focal point of the offense.
Similarly, in Galveston, Texas, where local government workers in three counties opted for a personal savings and investment alternative to Social Security in 1981 as well, the annual rate of return fell by about half at the lowest point of the financial crisis.
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It stands on two fore legs and one hind leg, with the other hind leg raised and touching the ground only on the point of the hoof.
Property rights only come into play when we decide whether to invent and assign them when we try to build a system that maximises the innovation which is the point of the system.
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Virtually all of the 100 objects they have chosen will be familiar to readers, some of them to the point of invisibility.
The Georgian, Grade II-listed Lady Gillford's House has been transformed from a state of dereliction over the past nine years to become the focal point of the archive.
Calling on the image of Rosie the riveter to prove her point is far from the mark, or even the point of her article.
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The ritual was made official the first time he invited me out for a glass of red after the movie, as though that were the real point of the afternoon.
However, the 2009 champion burst clear at the restart and pumped in a series of fastest laps to build a two-second lead just after the halfway point of the race.
The coldest temperature was -13C (8.6F) at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands on 8 January, while the strongest gust of wind was 165mph (265.5kph), recorded at the highest point of the Cairngorms mountain range on 8 December.
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One of the great qualities of art is to go back to the great point, the Garden of Eden.
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