The ifs calculates that the real average increase in tax revenues above inflation was 4.6%a year during Blair's first term (ending this fiscal year), compared with a 1.8% annual increase between 1979 and 1997.
The move will test whether Senate leaders in either party are actively working to pass a deal, or if they are calculating that, in advance of the November election, their parties are better served by leaving the status quo intact.
With the support of Britain assured, American officials were calculating that if they secured seven votes from nonpermanent members, France would almost certainly acquiesce in the final hour.
But he may be calculating that if he takes a high-profile public posture, he could find himself the lightning rod for more protests and strikes.
Aunt Angela was calculating that, if Pesce had started collaborating for the sake of her children, she would stop for them, too.
If the White House is calculating that this may stave off calls for even more serious protectionism, it is willfully disregarding its own record.
Nursery marketing experts figured me out long ago, craftily calculating that if they put the pots of blooming stuff right out front -- in the parking lot, if possible -- I'm theirs.
After all, the new American Commander-in-Chief, though hailing from the same party as Bush, has declared NATO to be "obsolete" and professed an admiration for Vladimir Putin — who could, if he so pleased, and if he calculated that America might not be roused to revenge, dispatch his tanks across the Lithuanian border.
If you calculate that at full brightness for 12 hours a day, it's 37 years.
And if you calculate that the dealers who exhibit are drawn from 15 countries, it is.
