Either you or your employer will cut the Gordian knot soon, and it sounds like an unpleasant ending.

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There is a simpler way to cut the Gordian knot of rising debt and college costs, one that would help desperate graduates in the short term and lower the cost of college in the long term.

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That could cut the Gordian knot of immigration reform: America will be yearning for more immigrants, documented or not. 4% growth (somewhat less, actually) makes Social Security and Medicare solvent for as far as the eye can see. 4% growth is the key to the goal of Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to rebrand the GOP as the Great Opportunity Party.

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Officials in Congress and federal agencies often gravitate toward major changes (new visas, new initiatives) that they say will cut through the Gordian knot.

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While the rest of the company works to shave another 5% off the costs of supplies and wrestles with the union to close plants here and there and give up some health care benefits, Burns could cut GM's Gordian knot with the simplest element in the universe.

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