"I think people know this is a serious recession, and they don't expect it to turn it around quickly," Ms. Rivlin said.

我希望人们知道这是一个严重衰退，而且我们不相信他会迅速扭转。Rivlin女士说。

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Bentsen and Panetta wanted as much deficit reduction as we could pass in Congress, an amount less than Gore and Rivlin advocated, but still a lot.

本特森和帕内塔希望尽量削减赤字，国会通过多少，就减多少。他们提出的减税幅度比戈尔和瑞芙琳提议的要小一些，但仍然数额不小。

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But a year later, economist Alice Rivlin says aggressive actions taken by the Obama administration, appear to have stopped the bleeding.

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Alice Rivlin, who was budget director under President Bill Clinton, says programs have enormous staying power.

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M. (pictured with Rivlin above), are expected to release a plan to cut the U.S. federal budget deficit.

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In principle, it mirrors the balance that was put forward by the Simpson-Bowles Commission, by the Domenici-Rivlin Commission.

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