The ruling party, he said, has realized "that it has sacrificed economic growth for the sake of some economic goals."

A. We won't have to sacrifice economic growth because there'll be new markets, such as the solar industry, to take the place of old ones.

Supply-siders place great importance on economic growth - as everyone should - and see no reason to sacrifice growth for higher government spending.

Moreover, the economic boom gives China the resources to pay for pollution abatement, as well as the option of sacrificing growth where necessary.

But supply-side Republicans think that he is overly willing to sacrifice economic growth for the sake of suppressing inflation.

"This is the right time to focus on the fundamental economics of our business, even if it means sacrificing growth."

THE Federal Reserve, as everyone knows, is always trying to keep inflation down without sacrificing too much economic growth.

A typical goal of austerity is to reduce the annual budget deficit without sacrificing growth.

"We will not sacrifice Brazilian economic growth because of the foreign debt," Miss Cardoso said at a news conference here two weeks ago.

No need to sacrifice growth to manage foreign debt or inflation, they said.