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American editorialists protested the transition is too slow, but Nigerians count themselves lucky, since previous "transitions" have been slower and illusory.
Yet even this final rebound proved illusory.
The budget surplus, which is providing Clinton with excellent cover for his new social programs (Gigot; David Gergen, The McLaughlin Group ), was declared illusory and temporary by This Week 's two conservatives, who failed to note these seemingly obvious truths last week when the surplus was Issue 1. George Will stated without dissent that the surplus is an accounting trick: If the balance sheet were to include the trust funds (Social Security, etc.), the real deficit would stand at about $140 billion.
China's claimed 7.8 percent growth is illusory, the writer asserts--the economy is actually just barely expanding, the government is debt-ridden, and millions are unemployed.
Class-based affirmative action trades in a vexed solution to a real problem for an even more vexed solution to an illusory problem.