Word: surplus
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...currently reducing its expenditures by one to two percent from an expected spending level of $24 million, and plans to reduce by an additional four percent in fiscal year 2010, Radcliffe Dean Barbara J. Grosz reported. Radcliffe spent $19.7 million in fiscal year 2008, ending the year with a surplus in unrestricted funds, according to its last annual report. Grosz said Radcliffe was on a growth curve when the initial spending level for fiscal year...
...fell to $8 a barrel, Texas is not heavily dependent on its energy industry, so the state "should have more resistance to, but not immunity from, recessionary conditions," according to state comptroller Susan Combs. When the legislature convenes for its biennial session in January, Texas will have a big surplus, thanks in part to last year's booming oil and gas revenues - one of only nine states...
...biggest economic crisis in decades. One result has been that Americans are driving less - 100 billion miles fewer in the first 10 months of this year than in the same period for 2007, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Far from a shortage, there's now a surplus of oil, with about 50 million barrels of it currently stored in about 25 oil tankers awaiting buyers...
Last term, the Finance Committee ended the year with a small surplus for the first time in recent memory. This year, the UC will need to stretch its budget even more in order to help mitigate the increased burden felt by student groups and house committees as publications find the pool of advertisers shallower and formerly robust corporate sponsors pull out of events they have traditionally funded. However, while it is necessary for the UC to be more judicious with its funding policies and financial management, it is equally essential for student groups to review their own operations conscientiously...
...economic policy of opening to the outside world, but as for the details or specifics of how to implement it, I know very little indeed." But he knew enough to let others lead. The reforms that Deng blessed started in the countryside, where farmers were allowed to sell surplus produce and, in time, were allowed to farm their own land on long leases rather than as part of a commune. "Township and village enterprises" - small firms, many of which grew rapidly in size - sprang up. Prices were freed. As the success of reform became evident in the countryside...