Word: surplus
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...Abraham extended just-departed Energy Secretary Bill Richardson's standing order to force western energy suppliers - and the neighboring states they supply - to continue selling their surplus electricity to California and its drowning-in-debt utilities. This despite the wide-open question of whether the utilities (or anyone else) will ever pay them for the juice...
...Because the economy is great - never better, according to some. Public finances are in great shape, the government has a big surplus, growth is high and there's no sign of inflation. Conservative Party leader William Hague has not caught the country's imagination. They've got some pet issues, such as rising crime and opposition to Britain adopting Euro. But the government is not giving them very much of a target. There may be a lower turnout in this election, and Blair's margin of victory may be smaller in light of creeping disillusion among many voters who voted...
...with a 54-year-old ex-president with a restless brain and a surplus of charisma, this was the part we were waiting for - "I'll leave the presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead." Question: Was he therefore that deeply cynical when he entered the Oval Office...
...federal government afford to give students and families more financial help to pay for college? The answer is clearly "yes." At a time when the current federal budget surplus is over $200 billion, and when very large surpluses are anticipated in coming years, we now have a unique opportunity to make certain that college education becomes affordable for every American family...
...good friend of the Fed chairman's. So are Cheney and Paul O'Neill, Bush's choice as Treasury Secretary. Both worked with Greenspan in Gerald Ford's White House. All of them will be going to work on Greenspan to persuade him that Congress would simply spend the surplus before it can be used for bill paying. And George W., whose father had notoriously frosty relations with Greenspan, has gone out of his way to court the chairman. A few weeks ago, after their get-acquainted meeting in Washington, he even squeezed the uncomfortable-looking Greenspan on camera...