By agreeing to balance the budget, for example, he changed the debate from whether to balance the budget to how to balance it.
The question of whether to balance the budget and when is a new staging ground in the long-running fiscal fight between Republicans and the White House.
He stunned his own party when he embraced the Republicans' idea of a balanced budget in 1995, a move that meant the parties were no longer fighting over whether to balance the budget -- a debate that favored the Republicans.
Whether used to balance the budget or to fund programs for jobs, healthcare, education, and the environment, this money would go a long way toward resolving some of the nation's current problems.
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The question is whether a court can grant a "reporter's privilege," allowing a judge to balance whether it is necessary to force a journalist – in this case, James Risen of The Times – to disclose a source.
Pew surveyed 2,511 adults nationwide, asking questions about things like what's important to them in a job, whether they prefer full- or part-time work, and whether it's difficult to balance work and family.
"We have to balance whether we can turn an excitement into a bona fide reliable physics signal against big delays to the next big project inside CERN," Dr. Cashmore said.
Last year, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the United States District Court in Alexandria, Va., ruled that Mr. Risen was protected by a qualified "reporter's privilege" that allowed her to balance whether it was necessary to force him to disclose his sources.
The E.E.O.C. makes clear that personnel decisions implemented on the basis of stereotypical assumptions are unacceptable and urges employers "to make it easier for all workers, whether male or female, to balance work and personal responsibilities".
In 1936, for example, Gallup asked Americans whether it was time to balance the budget and reduce the national debt, and 70% said yes: both the question and the answer could have come from the 1990s.
