Word: surplus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could be allowed to set fees to 'balance the budget.'" He added that achieving such a balance would require a fee increase exceeding the range outlined by the guidelines. He added, however, that he doubts the federal government would permit an increase that would allow for a budget surplus...
TOKYO--Masayoshi Ohira, Japan's new prime minister, predicted continued troubles for the dollar yesterday, and called for a tripling of President Carter's $30 billion "defense fund" for buying up surplus dollars to prevent the dollar's further decline...
...formidable task of rejuvenation. In West Germany, Strukturwandel (structural change) is constantly on the lips of industrialists, politicians, economists and union bosses. The term covers a variety of measures: a switch to profitable products, heavy investment in machinery, "rationalization," or reduction of labor forces where warranted, the retraining of surplus workers, even a shift of emphasis in the education system away from the humanities to technical training in new industries. "Our industry must manufacture goods that others are not yet capable of marketing and will not be able to produce in the next ten years," says Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...speculators and other money traders. Authorities have kept the formula by which they peg the riyal's value a deep secret. A London bank once set its computers to work trying to calculate the formula, to see whether and how it was related to the Saudis' trading surplus or the fluctuations of the dollar against other currencies, but drew a complete blank...
...seen such a "mass exodus" in previous Faculty meetings, he added, "It is just typical of the Faculty's attitude toward teaching." Dean Rosovsky presented his annual budget letter to the Faculty warning that while the Faculty has had two consecutive years of a slight budget surplus, inflation threatens to bring a period of "renewed and considerable financial difficulty," he said...