Economic growth is the only way that nations can extricate themselves from fiscal crises.

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Isn't that a better learning curve than just learning how to extricate themselves from their successive trophy wives?

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Other developed capitalist countries will take longer to extricate themselves from what they know and dare to reconsider the validity.

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If they cannot extricate themselves, many will have to stay.

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But, just as Democrats never retreated from their commitment to raise the top two tax rates and grow government, the Republicans can use their tactical retreat to extricate themselves from the trap of bi-partisan austerity.

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If the FDA and GlaxoSmithKline want to extricate themselves from their current public relations predicament surrounding the diabetes drug Avandia, they should put all the data that has been collected about the drug into the public domain.

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You could argue, and in fact this point was made to me earlier in the week by Alastair Mitchell of Huddle, that the success or failure of the social business meme revolves around one central question: will enough CIOs have the guts, or the capability, to extricate themselves from big vendor relationships.

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