The possibility of major parts of President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill becoming law, and of further steps next week by the Federal Reserve, have forecasters saying that the decisions Washington makes in the weeks ahead could have a substantial effect on economic growth and unemployment.
We have already taken action to deal with that and we are looking at seeing what we can do and I am hoping we will be able to announce some further steps in the next few days.
Britain's foreign secretary, Robin Cook, said he delivered the message in talks with a delegation of three Zimbabwean ministers and made clear that Britain would "refuse to take any further steps until the next step is taken, and that is for the occupations to come to an end".
Is it so hard to imagine them going a step further next time around?
Cornish Pirates hooker Dave Ward believes the club can go a step further next season and win the Championship play-offs.
Aside from further study, next steps will be to look at how much BPA is being discharged from factories and calculate the distance the chemical traveled to make it into the surface water sample; the amount of BPA that then shows up in the water; and the overall percentage of BPA emissions that ultimately reach nearby water resources.
Peeling back the onion a bit further, the next step was to break the crowdfunding levels into buckets to help better examine the relationship between success on Kickstarter/Indiegogo and venture appetite.
To take the emerging field a step further, Klein next joined forces with scientists from Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment and the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment through the Natural Capital Project, a group that maps and valuates ecosystem services.
To consolidate the slip hypothesis further, the next step must be to show how an observer fares when presented with very short and single trial slip sequences sampled from different textures.
This task was used to indicate the direction of travel and provide further recommendations for next steps; it is also worth noting a strength of this task was that it made the panel consider opportunity cost.
A spokesperson from the House of Lords says one further next step for the committee will be to produce a report next year, "which the UK Government will be obliged to respond to within two months".
