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The Congressional Budget Office actually projects that the deficit is on a downward path, but the NYT still felt the need to tell readers that the deficit is “ballooning” in an article on the agenda for an upcoming meeting of G-8 leaders. The article also felt the need to describe the deficit as “giant.”
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