Here, the literature also points to a positive feedback effect with decisive expenditure-based fiscal consolidation because this type of consolidation appears to foster growth, in particular in times of severe fiscal imbalances.

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While such a result is an altogether too common product of U.S.-Soviet arms control efforts, in few areas is the effect likely to be more decisive.

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The danger the Brotherhood justifiably perceives is that Mr. Emerson will succeed in shaping the sorts of policies that are urgently needed: informed and decisive efforts to counter MPAC and its sister front organizations in the United States and the insidious effect they have had in increasing our national vulnerability to the Islamofascist onslaught, at home and abroad.

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