On questions of deficits and debt it's best to think in terms of a balance sheet.
None of this answers the pressing question of the deficit, Labour's dire polling on economic competence, or Miliband's own personal ratings.
Nevertheless, this exploratory study has its value in being a first starting point in a not well understood research area, and should be seen as a basis for digging deeper into the question of which deficits in the interplay of both sectors exist and how to improve the efficiency of health care provision in Germany.
In this study, we also addressed the question of whether the deficit in ToM observed in patients with TLCI could be related to the neuropsychological test.
This lack of appreciation is partly a question of media attention-deficit disorder: if there is little news value in Dog Bites Man, there is none whatever in Dog Does Not Bite Man.
However, we still face the question of how psychological deficits are related to other levels of explanation, and here Marr's picture comes under real stress.
While most of us wouldn't argue that decreased vision, hearing, and mobility are common factors of aging -- it is the question of when these deficits make a person unsafe to drive that opens the quagmire of discussions on individual rights; community safety; isolation; adequate provision of public transport; town planning; home help services; family responsibility -- and independence.
The main reason for adopting this categorical approach is that it enables us to ask the clinically relevant question of how specific deficits relate to literacy outcomes.
Thus, in spite of the prominence of the attentional disengagement account of ASD, there is no clear answer to the basic question of whether disengagement deficits are present in children with ASD independently of global developmental delays.
In a neglect case, it was a matter less of stopping something obviously terrible from happening than of filling in the deficits in a child's life, and the question of what constituted a deficit big enough to count as neglect was difficult to settle.
