If Republicans want to avoid repeating this mistake, they will have to first and foremost push back against Democratic plans to turn Medicaid--the joint federal-state health insurance for the poor--into a middle-class entitlement by expanding eligibility in the name of covering the uninsured.

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One mistake to avoid is the European mixture of over-generous jobless benefits and high tax rates.

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Consider all your Social Security options carefully to avoid making a costly mistake.

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But, for the Fed to avoid making an inflationary mistake requires Bernanke and his colleagues to get it exactly right, even as a growing number of people become less willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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Political analysts say the forum, at the very least, provided Bush a chance to avoid making the same mistake his father, former President George Bush, did when he appeared to focus more on the Persian Gulf War than on the economy.

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It is a mistake he is determined to avoid repeating.

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And I think that the mistake that he would want to avoid is where he just gets to a point where he's frankly tired of apologizing and then he just sort of decides, okay, I'm not going to do this anymore.

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For Mr. Clinton truly to "do his best, " he had best avoid the mistake of nominating Mr. Davis or Gen.

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This is often done to avoid creditors, to minimize estate or income taxes, or to correct a mistake on the beneficiary form.

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We need to avoid throwing everything into the sea, even the good things, just because of this mistake.

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