Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Councillors said they hope to alleviate the hospital's growing deficit by collecting the money from the state rather than by raising taxes...
...first singles, Dragomirescu recorded a straight-set decision over Ho, 6-4, 6-4, while Henikoff rallied from a 5-2 deficit in the first set to win, 7-6. In the second set, Henikoff played more aggressively and used a strong mid-court game...
Despite controlling yesterday's championship game from the onset, Harvard quickly fell behind, 6-0, on two Brown penalty kicks. But Liles scored a penalty kick just before the end of the first half to cut the deficit...
Sophomore Jonathan Cardi rallied from a 5-4 deficit in the first set to defeat Tom Mahoney, 7-5, 6-0 at the fifth singles position. The last point perfectly exemplified the play of the match as both players exchanged a flurry of volleys, with Cardi winning when Mahoney's shot landed wide...
...overall Soviet economy remains a near shambles. The budget deficit -- caused in part by transfusions to anemic factories and by subsidies for food and housing -- is about 11% of the GNP, by some estimates. The ruble, arbitrarily said to be worth $1.60 but not freely convertible into dollars or other Western currencies, brings as little as 10 cents on the black market. But price controls have repressed the latent inflation, and people have more paper money -- about 300 billion rubles in savings -- than there are goods available for purchase...