There is no alternative to economic growth, and not just economic growth because even during the Clinton years, when we had a lot of it, we left behind some 35 million Americans who stayed below the poverty line.
As I wrote last week upon my return to the Office of Management and Budget, the fiscal and economic situation we face today is very different than the projected surpluses we left behind the last time I served as OMB Director in the 1990's.
Because we are American, my mom managed to get the entire family in to the U.S. We left everything behind.
Eventually the iPhone came with its app store, and then Android came with its app store, and we were left behind.
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"It is a chilling reminder of a violent past that everyone in the community hoped we had left behind, " they added.
It was the stuff of playgrounds and junior high, and most of us thought we had left it behind as we grew into women and moved on to more mature venues.
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But at one time or another, we have all been left behind while the one we love has gone off to train for battle, or keep the peace, or wage war.
If we stand still while the global economy evolves, we will be left behind.
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If we don't anticipate the future now and the key role new technologies will play, we will be left behind.
If we stay in the job and choose not to follow the dress code, we risk getting left behind in the promotion game or fired.
And when we left a book behind in our room at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore, the staff emailed us within 10 minutes of our departure offering to send it on to our next location.
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Today, we reflect on the proud legacy he left behind, and we celebrate the lasting ways Polish Americans have enriched our Nation.
"I accept money is tight within the NHS, but we can't be left behind by the rest of the world in developing what we are doing in surgery and other aspects of health care, " said Mr Bhabra.
What are you doing, and what can we do, to make sure we're not left behind?
We called ourselves the Left Behind and spoke in broken English.
And Race to the Top should be the approach we follow this year as we replace No Child Left Behind with a law that's more flexible and focused on what's best for our kids.
"We're getting left behind here, " he says.
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And we were destined to be left behind, as the next generation of hires enjoyed the fruits of our labor.
Speaking of which, where did we put out copy of Left Behind?
Basically, as a part of No Child Left Behind, we're expected to meet proficiency in reading and math by the year 2013 or 14.
"We are seeing fewer phones left behind, but a lot more iPads and Kindles, " said Tim Thornton, director of airport operations and guest services for Virgin America.
But have we actually left all of it behind?
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The essence and elegance of No Child Left Behind is that we are going to peel back the onion and hold ourselves accountable.
When BBC cameraman John Anderson and I joined him as he was about to launch the Margaret we saw he had left his nets behind.
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In America, we have the same pragmatic opportunity not to be left behind as the economy here becomes dominantly framed in the context of sustainability, and the world as we know it looks to those products and looks to that ingenuity and develops a framework of dependency and partnership.
No man or woman will be left behind as long as we are this nation.
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What No Child Left Behind says is that we are going to have our kids on grade level by 2014.
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