In this environment, whether annual health care costs rise or fall by 1% or even 5% is irrelevant - all we do is move the day of reckoning less than 1 year closer or farther away.

在这种环境下，无论是每年的卫生保健费用上升或下降1%甚至5%都是无关紧要的-我们所能做的便是变动计算天数不到1年或更远一点。

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Annual inflation, by the government's own reckoning, will spiral to 230% by December.

ECONOMIST: Russia

The Council's annual report provides an analysis of the previous year's economic performance and a reckoning of what's to come.

FORBES: White House Report Says Economy Will Rebound In 2008