Word: surplus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business doubled in seven days. Healthy competition can keep prices from rising, but competition is sharpest when there is a surplus of gasoline and weakest now, when supplies are tight...
...ripped into "the medical-industrial complex" and the high costs of health care. "The hospital today is the equivalent of the cathedral of the Middle Ages," he charged. "There is a high priesthood; there are mandatory offerings." As hospitals and doctors enjoy more money, he said, "we get more surplus hospital beds, more surplus technology, and we create a medical arms race." Brown contended that the U.S. armed forces "have the highest tail-to-teeth ratio [support-to-combat troops] in the world. Cuts are possible; I say less tail and more teeth." He advocated some form of compulsory national...
...rushing to get apartments and factories to convert to oil heat-there is also an effort under way to pump Soviet oil down from the main pipeline network to the north. That, however, is an enormous engineering task, and even though the gas-rich U.S.S.R. has a surplus of the fuel available to ease the crunch in the Transcaucasus, the troubles in Iran could be long over before the pipeline rerouting is finished...
Everyone who last had a say in the decision to limit the rise in this year's board charge did so because they believed the Food Services Department would have a surplus, which could make up for the scant 2.3-per-cent increase in students' bills. Unfortunately, food prices don't listen to Harvard administrators...
...trillion-dollar hole By allowing workers to divert part of their payroll taxes to private accounts (Bush hasn't said how much this would be; the fraction his advisers throw around is one-sixth), Bush cuts the size of the social security surplus almost in half, by about $1 trillion. And not using that money for debt reduction adds an additional $300 billion to the government's interest bill. These costs (along with his $1.6 trillion tax cut) mean it will take longer for Bush to eliminate the national debt, leaving less money in the future to guarantee Social Security...