They will follow each other off the cliff rather than risk being different and thinking independently.
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Another factor most miss: In terms of government spending, we already went off the cliff.
Will they "hold hands and jump off the cliff" together, as Lott likes to say?
If we actually topple off the cliff, MTRs will jump on January 1.
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"Everyone thinks the New York City office market is about to fall off the cliff, " says Smotrich.
Still chained on the edge, they seem determined to jump off the cliff, wrapped in an ugly embrace.
It was just such a cut that sent AIG, the largest insurer in the world, right off the cliff.
Nobody wants Caterpillar Tractor and Deere at ten times earnings power because their earnings could fall off the cliff.
"I always remember the dinosaur falling off the cliff, " he remarked at a Vancouver, Canada, animation and effects convention in 2001.
Certainly, if iPhone 5 demand is indeed falling off the cliff that the WSJ claims it is, things will change next quarter.
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But history shows that even if we do go off the cliff, the consequences might not be as dire as many expect.
I've said -- you've never heard me say if we go off the cliff, the American people will blame one side or the other.
Coyote-like death trip, barreling off the cliff without looking down?
That would be bad enough, but the Palestinians' inarguable bad faith and continued commitment to Israel's destruction have driven the far Left far off the cliff of reason and rationality.
Now that falling off the cliff is no longer a likely outcome, attention has shifted to how inflationary all these measures will be, and how much will they trash the dollar.
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Firms at the top pride themselves on paying market, which is why the AmLaw100 routinely marches itself off the cliff like lemmings to offer first year associates exactly the same salary.
Some may be the predictions of the Congressional Budget Office and others that tumbling off the cliff will throw the economy into recession, or the evident nervousness of financial markets.
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We now live in a world in which that sense of security can disappear in a heartbeat whether your company falls off the cliff, or makes significant changes to avoid the cliff.
"With the final hurdle being passed now, we've got a minimum deal that avoids any immediate threat of the US falling off the cliff, " said Jason Hughes, head of premium client management for IG Markets Singapore.
As you heard last night, that's why we're putting in place the policies that will enable us to reduce the debt we inherited and deal with the spending required to keep us from falling off the cliff this year.
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This holiday shortened fifty second and last full trading week of 2012 comes to a close with investors fretting that a fall off the cliff is inevitable and that the impact of the fall will be severe and far reaching.
No doubt the last couple of months of concern over the U.S. going over the fiscal cliff, thereby potentially triggering a recession, has marketers spooked about committing too much when it looks like consumer spending could follow national finances off the cliff.
If they would at least aggressively explain their policies to the public, even if Obama resists and pushes the economy off the cliff for now, they can gain working veto proof majorities in the midterms to rescue the American Dream before it is too late.
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Then again, if those rates are going up anyway either because we go off the cliff or because Mr. Obama maneuvers them into a panicked, last-minute deal the rational GOP response is to instead choose a deliberate course that mitigates its own political damage, and lands some blows.
If Obama can back the Republicans into looking like they pushed the U.S. off the cliff he will get them to agree his impossible demands baked into a form of Cliff Mutual Destruction Pact, get it delivered, secure a massive rebalance moment and blame the downside on the opposition.
Can you envision any scenario in which we do go off the fiscal cliff at the end of the year?
One of the steepest challenges for computer animators and game developers is crafting realistic human characters without dropping their audience off the proverbial cliff of the uncanny valley.
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Indeed, the leader of the free world has a little more than a month to stave off the fiscal cliff, which would plunge the economy into another recession, economists predict: It would result in higher taxes on the entire population and drastic spending cuts to federal agencies come Dec. 31.
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