Portugal will need to take "sizable consolidation measures" next year and withdraw fiscal stimulus this year if it is to meet the European Union's deficit target of no more than 3 percent of gross domestic product by 2013, Fitch said.
2. It's impossible to close Guantánamo Resettling the detainees in their home countries or in other nations is a matter of political will on the part of the president, realism on the part of Congress and trust in the nation's sizable counterterrorism measures.
Fitch said that Portugal's austerity measures, passed last month in an attempt to cut its budget deficit, were "credible," but the government would need "to implement sizable consolidation measures from next year".
It's the kind of story that can be filed from just about any town or city that's going to host an international event, and the piece altogether felt disappointing... padded out as it was with a few desultory remarks about all the sizable security measures.
But, as part of the eurozone, individual countries can't devalue their currencies, and the E.U.'s fiscal pact prevents them from granting themselves sizable fiscal-stimulus measures, which, in any case, might be difficult to finance because they already have so much debt.
The regulator has a sizable variety of measures to take into account when designing a transparency system.
The Democrats' new reform measure drew sizable support from G.O.P. lawmakers intent on escaping the shadows of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal — the illicit golf-and-goodies legislating that helped deprive them of their control of Congress.
Possibly the proportion of home buyers like I describe here is too small to have a sizable impact on the measure of a bubble — but are you aware of any data to allow for an assessment of this? Paul Krugman: What great comments I'm getting here!
But the LT-1's $498 price could also buy a sizable collection of tape measures -- or pay for a handyman to do a small job.
A concrete way to adjust gradually is to pair serious long-run deficit reduction measures with equally serious, near-term jobs measures — like a sizable short-run infrastructure program and a one-year continuation of the payroll tax cut for working families first passed in 2010.
