But say that we need to reverse the obvious shortfall in nominal GDP, and you've found a more acceptable way to justify huge quantitative easing and a de facto higher inflation target.
Indeed one question about a show like "The Apprentice" is how it will make up for its obvious shortfall in what is known in the reality business as "the bikini factor".
For the fiscal year 2006 2007, CJRR forms were submitted on only 41% of hip and knee arthroplasty cases an obvious shortfall in data collection.
The health care system, widely accepted to be underfunded, with just 2% of the GNP being spent on health care, has created an obvious shortfall in equipment, supplies and health care personnel; moreover, it has affected their education and training.
There is virtually no slack, obvious potential capacity shortfalls, and little investment in addressing them.
The shortfalls become obvious as soon as one leaves Zimbabwe's urban centres.
With over 30,000 patients diagnosed with type 1 diabetes each year in the United States and only about 8000 human cadaver donors, the shortfall is obvious (http://www.jdrf.org/ and http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/).hrsa.gov/
The obvious solution to Social Security shortfalls: Remove, or at least greatly increase, the salary cap.
The obvious troubles with such drastic shortfalls have come to a head in recent weeks.
I should start by pointing out the obvious: the solution to a shortfall in sales is — wait for it — more sales.
