report released Thursday threw cold water on Republican beliefs that a simplified tax code that lowered income and payroll taxes and closed loopholes to make up for lost revenue would substantially close the deficit by boosting economic growth.
As Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics has pointed out, for all the talk about how important Hispanics are to the conservative future, the Republican Party could substantially close the gap with Democrats in presidential elections if its post-Obama share of the African-American vote merely climbed back above 10 percent — a feat achieved by Bob Dole and both Bushes.
"Under Senator [John] Cornyn's leadership, the NRSC made substantial investments in online and direct mail technologies, and coupled with a lot of hard work, that allowed us to substantially close what was once a very significant gap.
Towards the end of the Overture I realise that the ceiling is substantially closer than it was at the start.
On Thursday, five weeks after Qatar was elected to host the 2022 World Cup, the control of Asian soccer moved substantially closer to the Arab world.
Moody's said the United States and other major Western nations, particularly Britain, have moved "substantially" closer to losing their gilt-edged ratings.
Indeed, worries about the growth of national, or sovereign, debt prompted Moody's Investors Service to warn on Monday that the United States and other Western nations were moving "substantially" closer to losing their top-notch Aaa credit ratings.
In an interview with the Guardian on the day after he announced ing his intentions, Hunt said he believed junior doctors would come to see it as a good deal, arguing that the terms were "substantially closer to what the BMA were asking for".
However, a Product Development Partnership to overcome this hurdle could accelerate the time lines towards when control of ETEC disease in DCs is substantially closer.
Importantly, as shown in Table 5, the placebo treatment DD estimates are again substantially close to zero, and the point estimates are statistically non-significant.
