He risks having to take unpopular measures to bring down the Italian deficit below three percent of gross domestic product by 2007.

What it means is another year sort of like last year, when gross domestic product grew 2.4 percent. That means another year during which the job market doesn't get a whole lot better, but also doesn't collapse. It means another year during which promises of a strong economic rebound are postponed, but so are fears of a double-dip recession. Another year, that is, that will stump the doomsayers even while it fails to inspire us to party like it's 1999.

Growth in real gross domestic product amounted to 4.5 percent in 2004, and preliminary anecdotal evidence suggests that this performance may have been exceeded somewhat in 2005.

By 2030, up to 10 percent of the world's gross domestic product could be linked to space in some way.

International GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is expected to grow substantially more than U.S. GDP over the next few years.

It's clear that the target the White House has set of halving the deficit (as a percentage of gross domestic product) by 2010 is unrealistic.