Today's deal introduces a lot of certainty to US income tax rates but it leaves nearly all the key spending issues up in the air - and it does not pave the way for the rise in tax revenues, relative to GDP, which most economists think will be crucial to filling the long-term hole in America's federal budget.
Echoing statements heard not long ago at Jackson Hole, Bernanke tried to disprove what he sees as misunderstandings as to how asset purchases work.
While on the easy par-5, 548-yard first hole, the long-hitting Weekley told his caddie that it was good to feel butterflies again.
Compared to many European countries, America's fiscal hole is indeed long-term.
But although there were now only the mandatory four fielders inside the circle, dot balls built pressure and O'Brien finally went big again, only to hole out at long-off.
There were -- this was a long time coming, and the hole that it left in our economy, particularly with jobs, was as deep as it has ever been.
Like a fossil hinting at a long-gone animal, a black hole is offering clues about a now-destroyed galaxy that may once have existed around it.
India will soon end up in the economic hole from which it took so long to emerge.
Burning a hole at the top of a long list of needs for a startup entrepreneur is good old Benjamin Franklins.
But Guan had another long delay before his second shot on the hole as he tried to read the wind, and Paramor pulled him aside as the teenager approached the green.
This fact has long since been conveniently dropped down the memory hole, but in 1993 virtually all of the leaders of the gay political establishment were fiercely opposed to the idea of gay marriage, and they vilified as sellouts those of us who supported it.
And it will take a long time for us to get out of the hole that that created.
The fact is this hole was so deep that we have a long way to go before we are where we need to be.
No long faces standing around in the rain, staring down into a hole in the ground while someone drones on about how wonderful I was.
Rock, who has long threatened to fulfill his promise, pulled ahead at the fourth hole and kept his nerve in the face of challenges from Woods and world No. 3 McIlroy.
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This is a huge hole to fill and will likely not be filled for a long time to come.
The fourth hole at Glenmore Country Club in Keswick, Virginia is a very long par 3 and rife with danger.
Though Artfire has a long way to go in terms of site traffic, their ace in the hole is their value-added user-centered support.
Charmin had set up what appeared to be a 10-hole privy station on 42nd Street, which came in handy after a long walk across town.
Thus, those states claiming that they are cutting fat and waste are actually setting the stage for the impoverishment of their citizenry and a long-run decline in the revenues available to pull themselves back out of this hole.
Across a busy road from that hole, a drivable par-four prone to backups, stands the building that long ago housed Fort Worth's original Neiman Marcus.
"We were preparing for a long, systematic search of thousands of globular clusters with the hope of finding just one black hole, " said Dr Maccarone.
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The hole made by that collision, in what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico, has long since been buried in thick layers of sediment under the sea.
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