Word: deficits
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Those who have known Knowles best, including his family and former graduate students, call him "disciplined," "driven" and "highly reasoned." He considers his greatest achievement as dean--the elimination of the huge deficit he inherited in 1991--to have come largely through a capacity for saying...
...administration needed a new dean who could work well with the incoming president, Neil L. Rudenstine. The successful candidate also faced the rising FAS budget deficit, which totaled $12 million at the time...
Named Dean of FAS on Class Day, 1991, Knowles's first task was to eliminate the Faculty's deficit. He accomplished this through attrition, staff cuts and austerity...
...which lowers U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. President Clinton supports the measure, but opponents, who include religious and human-rights activists as well as industries fearful of low-cost Chinese competition, plan to make Beijing's alleged transgressions their Exhibit A. Referring to the ballooning $40 billion U.S. trade deficit with China, Gary Bauer, head of the right-wing Family Research Council, says, "The Chinese government needs our market, not the other way around...
...almost entirely unpredicted. That's because the performance reflects sea changes in everything from the way Americans work to the nature of defense policies. The cold war's demise has helped reduce the federal deficit, and thus interest rates, by shifting dollars away from military spending. At the same time, converts to capitalism have craved American products, enabling U.S. companies to ring up rising sales from Russia to Chile. With the whole world eager for American computers, cars and corn, U.S. exports reached a record $611 billion in 1996 and have been outstripping that pace this year...