Word: surplus
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...During her tenure, Flores controlled nearly half a million dollars and kept the Council’s budget running with a surplus...
...mate, Kia J. McLeod ’10. Flores has served admirably over the course of her UC tenure, choosing to serve on the Finance Committee over the flashier SAC—the traditional venue for aspiring politicos—and then working to generate the first UC budget surplus in years. She and McLeod have well thought-out policies—that in many cases are quite similar to those of Schwartz and Biggers—and would prove able stewards of the Undergraduate Council.But while Schwartz and Biggers are not the only attractive choices, they are the best...
...scrap 48 million doses of the vaccine - half the U.S. supply - when regulators discovered that it had been tainted with bacteria. Americans were urged to reserve shots for the ill or elderly, but so many people opted out of shots that the country actually ended up with a surplus. "That was a rough year," says Bridges...
...testified before Congress that several hundred thousand soldiers would be needed to secure Iraq after the U.S. invasion, far more than the Administration had said were needed. He supported the military tradition of preparing for the worst, deploying more troops than might be necessary and then bringing the surplus home. He accurately predicted that ethnic tensions would trigger violence in Iraq and require significant ground forces to contain. The war ultimately required a "surge" of 30,000 additional troops beginning in January 2007, validating Shinseki's premonition. But Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz had belittled his assessment...
...same time, it's not clear where else China would stash the dollars it earns via its massive trade surplus other than in U.S. Treasuries. Europe's economies are in no better shape than the U.S.'s, and it has again become clear during this crisis that the dollar - not the euro - remains the world's safe-haven currency. Beijing's other option - bringing home the dollars it earns via trade - would complicate China's own monetary policy and possibly drive up the value...