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We need to recognize just how serious a deficit of rights we have.
And by the time I'd moved on, I was actually covering a third of my agency's budget deficit with speaking fees.
Now this leaves 10 percent deficit, sort of a mind-blowing number.
It perpetuates deficit spending.
In the article, a neuroscientist was talking about how children were presenting themselves with attention deficit disorder.
But still we have a large deficit in dealing with and understanding modern conflict.
That is, we exploit the fact that the healthy partner, playing somebody with major depression, or playing somebody with autism spectrum disorder, or playing somebody with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, we use that as a kind of biosensor, and then we use computer programs to model that person, and it gives us a kind of assay of this.
Why don't we lower government spending and lower government taxes, and then we'll be on an even more favorable long-term deficit trajectory?
He wants two trillion dollars to protect us from terrorists next year, a two-trillion-dollar federal budget, which will land us back into deficit spending real fast.
On the other hand, if we put the receptor back in a different structure called the mushroom body, the learning deficit is rescued, the flies learn well, but they're still hyperactive.
Now it turns out that in Alzheimer's disease, there's a huge deficit in glucose utilization in the brain.
I had just been elected prime minister, but I had the unhappy privilege of revealing a truth that our deficit was not 6 percent, as had been officially reported only a few days earlier before the elections by the previous government, but actually 15.6 percent.
George Papandreou: Well, obviously there were constraints which didn't allow me or others to make the types of decisions we would have wanted, and obviously I had hoped that we would have the time to make the reforms which would have dealt with the deficit rather than trying to cut the deficit which was the symptom of the problem.
People like Joe have a deficit in a brain area called the amygdala.
Online, we've got a compassion deficit, an empathy crisis.
By autistic standards, the normal human brain is easily distractable, obsessively social, and suffers from a deficit of attention to detail.
That rate of destruction has slowed, but we're still in a major mangrove deficit.
Some people worry about our federal deficit, but I, I worry about our bravery deficit.
The bravery deficit is why women are underrepresented in STEM, in C-suites, in boardrooms, in Congress, and pretty much everywhere you look.
The first: let's get rid of our deficit perspective in education.
But as adults, we spend so much of our time uncomfortable in our own skin, like we have ADD: authenticity deficit disorder.
And so when you look at the combined demand increase coming from India, China and the African continent, and look at it versus the combined increase in production coming from India, China, the African continent, North America, South America and Europe, you are left with a 214-trillion-calorie deficit, one we can't produce.
Nothing has happened because those arguments ask the surplus regions to change their behavior on behalf of deficit regions.
For example, if our test result suggests that a probationer has a hard time remembering the things they hear, that would be an auditory memory deficit.
This leaves the patient with a deficit in the amount of heart muscle that they have.
And when you put those two groups head to head, what you find is a quite significant, 40-percent deficit in the ability of the brain to make new memories without sleep.
But I'm glad to say that I think we know the cause of all these conditions, and that cause is NDD: Nature Deficit Disorder.
And if we want to cure ourselves of NDD, or Nature Deficit Disorder, I think this is a great way of doing it.
This stuff is getting serious enough that if we don't start paying attention to the deficit, we're going to end up losing the dollar.
Jon Corzine did not have a knowledge deficit, he had a behavior deficit.
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