Assuming that the entire Social Security surplus goes to debt reduction, the budget office found that the government would run surpluses until around 2020 and then would start running rapidly escalating deficits as the cost of paying Social Security and Medicare benefits to an aging population began to mount.
The whole of this is overlaid by a cultural divide which can lead to trivial run-ins escalating out of control.
We had a good win against Spurs here last month and everyone was happy then, but a bit of a bad run has escalated into a predicament, with only one point from four games since.
The hype surrounding Bonds' pursuit of the home run record escalated on May 14.
CAIRO — A panel of judges appointed by Egypt's ousted president, Hosni Mubarak, threw the nation's troubled transition to democracy into grave doubt Thursday with rulings that dissolved the popularly elected Parliament and allowed the toppled government's last prime minister to run for president, escalating a struggle by remnants of the old elite to block Islamists from coming to power.
I'm a little surprised Tanvir is opening the bowling; with the number of spinners at his disposal it might have been an idea for Hafeez to open with spin at both ends and just let that required run rate climb, escalating the pressure.
Tensions between the government and the Houthis, which were already running high, escalated when rebels abducted the president's chief of staff on Saturday.
In the months following July 1999, the rhetoric in the state-run press escalated to include charges that Falun Gong was colluding with foreign, "anti-China" forces.
"That doesn't make a breakup very likely, but it does mean some extraordinary things will almost certainly need to happen — probably by mid-January — to prevent the progressive closure of all the euro zone sovereign bond markets, potentially accompanied by escalating runs on even the strongest banks".
But it has its charms, and considering that this is a city where 30percentnt of houses have no running water and escalating fuel prices heap hardship on the locals, it's a testament to their spirit that Tana is as energetic as it is.
