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Forestalling such a bankruptcy was going to require drastic cuts in future benefits.
A Controversial Health Insurance Metaphor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Forestalling for a time broad-based tax increases could help in that regard or at least not hinder.
Economists React: Just How Good Is Gridlock? Phil Izzo 2010
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(Forestalling any criticism from Austrians) I realise that static models are limited and agree that the dynamic issues have to be taken into account, but we need to establish things like the rate of return identity before moving on.
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Forestalling the inevitable ministerial response that these are matters for local decision-making, the signatories say: "The underpinning issue is one of the overall service and system design – hence the need for government to take a lead."
Private hospitals are no place for people with learning disabilities 2011
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Forestalling the unemployment-insurance tax increase was the top priority of business groups when Mr. Christie took office in January 2010.
Day of Reckoning? Not Yet. Lisa Fleisher 2011
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Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double the juice from half the fruit.
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Forestalling or at least containing inevitable political consequences of the economic crisis is likely to be at the root of the other political tendency: an attempt by the Putin-led elite, coalesced around Gazprom, Rosneft, state corporations and the loyal industrial "oligarchs," to pre-empt challenges by beefing up the authoritarian "vertical of power."
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Forestalling another comment: That is to say, no lasting influence in terms of the spread of monotheism.
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Forestalling argument that would get them nowhere, and least of all advance the afternoon's already demanding agenda, he did his best to get between them: rhetorically if not physically.
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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Forestalling argument that would get them nowhere, and least of all advance the afternoon's already demanding agenda, he did his best to get between them: rhetorically if not physically.
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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