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.
But before you fall into a value trap, check out the current buy list in Forbes International Investment Report.
This problem comes to bear most often when respective partners fall into the trap of living out the stereotype of their role.
"The society does not advocate just anybody going out to trap mink and would not want this to be encouraged, " he said.
"The principle of Universal Credit is sound but our research has found the actual roll-out could unintentionally trap people in poverty and hardship, " the organisation's chief executive Julia Unwin said.
Sony may be laying something of a trap for themselves if this turns out to be anything less than a next-gen announcement.
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Lindsay Lohan's youngest fans know her as both the freckle-faced girl from The Parent Trap...and an out-of-control young woman in trouble with the law.
Tiger Woods got him out of a sand trap, noting that he too was motivated by high state taxes when he moved in the 1990s.
The only way out of the Development Trap, and the only route to sustainable development and an end to pervasive energy poverty is to make clean energy cheap.
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By training young people who grew up as orphans, or come from impoverished villages and providing them with well-paid IT jobs DDD gives them with a way out of the poverty trap.
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The only way out of the 2008 stagflation trap is to administer both monetary and fiscal cures.
The trap is that if the government sets out its own plans to raise taxes and cut spending, then Labour will face more pressure to say what it would do.
Surely, they say, anybody who can both run a large multinational company and also get up and down out of a nasty sand trap must have been designed by something real smart.
In fact, I view his General Theory as a guide for getting out of a recession or liquidity trap.
Does it really work to lay out some glyphs to set a trap and lure an enemy in or is it much faster and easier to simply burn the enemy to a crisp with your fire spell?
Coal beds often double as aquifers, and to remove the gas thousands of gallons of water (which trap it in the coal) must be got out first.
Mirabelle reaches into a gray plastic bucket and pulls out a roach motel, then a rat trap.
Many superlative vintages come from Colchagua Valley, where the high mountains trap the warm air in and keep cold Pacific air out.
The government has tried unsuccessfully to trap the wolves, fielding dozens of armed guards who stake out waterholes trying to shoot them.
While some hospital executives have commendably used a hospital chain's large size to standardize best practices, others have fallen into the age-old management trap of detaching themselves from the front lines and becoming dangerously out of touch with their own staff.
His spending program, known locally as the Economic Transformation Plan, is a bid to drag Malaysia out of the so-called middle-income trap, which forces many emerging economies to compete with each other in producing cheap exports instead of developing more-sophisticated, value-added products.
She felt around in the blocked sink with her rubber gloves, poking into the plughole with the toothbrush, pulling at the ends of the fibres caught in the trap, tugging and coaxing until she began to deliver up out of the drain a nasty mass, a thick rope of hair and soap and matted insulation, in a gulp of bad drain smell.
Cook was fortunate again having just passed 50 when Singh appeared to trap him in front but umpire Ian Howell decided it was not out.
Berbatov beat the offside trap to find himself clear but, unable to dig the ball out from under his feet, the chance was lost as he was crowded out.
If this medicine doesn't pan out, the next competitor to Avastin is VEGF-Trap, a treatment that Sanofi is developing with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: REGN - news - people ).
But Shane Watson, who was deceptively hostile, utilised reverse swing to trap Murali Vijay and nipped one away to take the edge of the out-of-touch Rahul Dravid.
Since they were first made in 1995, Bose-Einstein condensates have become commonplace as experimental tools. (They are particularly valued for their ability to slow the speed of light all the way down to zero.) Dr Steinhauer and his colleagues created a condensate out of a gas of rubidium atoms held in a magnetic trap.
And if a trap isn't built just right, the pigs will find a way out, either by climbing over each other or squeezing under the fencing.
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