Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Argentines last week estimated their government budget deficit for 1965 at $860 million-and that was just an optimistic guess. The actual deficit, say economists, is likely to be closer to $1 billion. Moreover, better than half of the red ink flows from a handful of state-owned enterprises that seem to succeed only in costing the country money. The state oil monopoly, Y.P.F., is expected to lose $120 million this year; millions more go for the state-run airline and merchant fleets...
...other government workers so they will not go to the polls mad. The rail unions have struck three times in the past five weeks in short walkouts, and now threaten a 72-hour tie-up-all of which should add a few more millions to the government's deficit...
Then Mathews scored twice more before Harvard could get untracked, once on a solo dash and once from a scramble in front of Welch. Zellner drew the Crimson to a two-goal deficit with just 13 seconds left in the game, on assists from Price and John Daly...
...Eckstein came to the Council last September from Harvard, where he was editor of the prestigious Review of Economics and Statistics. He will be the CEA's gadfly, probing new ways to bring economic policy to bear on such old problems as unemployment and the balance of payments deficit. Okun, a former Yale economist, is a tall, professorial type who before his appointment last November was best known for his pioneering explanation of the gaps between actual and potential gross national product. Called "Okun's law," it will be a major tool for the Administration in deciding...
...customer complaints about older planes and screwy schedules, Eastern Air Lines has steadily lost money in recent years. But under President Floyd D. Hall, 48, who moved over from TWA a year ago, Eastern is showing signs of recovery. Last week it announced that it reduced its eleven-month deficit in 1964 to $6,700,000, from 1963's eleven-month loss of $16.5 million. It also got a jet-powered assist from the Civil Aeronautic Board, which approved the line's proposal to increase all fares that now cost less than $50, cut those that cost more...