And this is the basis upon which this full recovery over time is going to occur.

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Excess capacity and the overhang of corporate debt may prevent full recovery for some time, but most Asian economies could start to see at least some growth by the second half of 1999.

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But now medical device makers are introducing an array of new, minimally invasive procedures to provide long-term pain relief without all the costs, risks, complications and recovery time of full-scale surgery.

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In fact, Prachee has been able to add 20 part-time and full-time workers because of the Recovery Act.

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As economist Gary Becker notes in his blog, expansion of means-tested benefit programs also contributed to the slow recovery by making people less willing to work full-time.

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Independent economists have said Romney's warmed-over ideas would pull us back toward recession at the very time we need to keep pushing toward a full recovery.

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Nine months gestation and subsequent recovery from giving birth is less than perfectly compatible with a full-time job outside the home.

ECONOMIST: Unequal opportunities

It's been a full-time -- and more than full-time -- job focusing on the day-to-day recovery (and) relief, making decisions about how we recover as many people as possible, making decisions about how to readjust the budget and then every day going to funerals and wakes, in some cases for personal friends.

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In a healthy recovery, the jobless rate declines as more workers collecting unemployment checks find full or part-time work and get off the government dole.

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