Word: surplus
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...remarkable for its blending of the fantastic and the real, introducing stylized elements to tell a story of a woman’s mundane life and her rather less mundane afterlife. Ultimately, the play is ambitious and beautiful both visually and in its underlying ideas, but its surplus of style keeps it from a true emotional resonance...
...deter foreign investors. And ordinary folk felt it would unduly burden low- and middle-income consumers. The government's gambit turned into an embarrassment when Financial Secretary Henry Tang, the moving force behind the gst, underestimated his numbers and revealed last month that Hong Kong had posted a surplus of $7 billion for the year, and would give back $2.4 billion of that in tax breaks. The upshot: the government didn't really need the extra cash...
Balance of trade [CHINA] $177.5 billion surplus...
...Rachel was technically unavailable. But historian Andrew Burstein argues that Jackson did know and that jumping the gun was socially acceptable on the remote frontier where he and Rachel lived. As presidential candidates, Jefferson was hammered for his lack of religion and Jackson was hammered for his wife's surplus of husbands--yet both men were elected twice. Partisanship and ideology made a space for singularity. Jefferson's and Jackson's supporters cared more about what their champions stood for than what they thought about theology or the divorce laws...
...coming year. According to The New York Times, several factors—including alumni donations, the 20 percent return of endowment investments, and the decision by trustees to spend more of the endowment—enabled Princeton to implement this freeze. Certainly, Princeton is to be commended for using surplus financial resources to ameliorate the massive burden high tuition rates impose on students and their families, especially those from middle- and low-income households. But we believe that extra available dollars at universities are better spent on financial aid than across-the-board tuition freezes. Princeton is following...