Word: surplus
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Until last year, departments that had not used up their entire budget were allowed to save the surplus funds and use them for special academic functions...
...University’s revenues and expenses both rose about 5 percent to $2.6 billion, producing an operating surplus of $37 million...
...great buy-off may prove to be a temporary fix, given that the government's beneficence is tied to surplus funds engendered by high oil prices. Polls show that 50% of Iranians plan to vote in next week's presidential election, compared with 66% in 2001. Lower turnout matters in a system that cares about public opinion, but that has long stopped being a concern of the Islamic republic. The regime is cunning enough to dispense new social liberties carefully, with periodic perfunctory raids reminding young people that they are being given freedom and shouldn't confuse it with...
...strikes me as morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus." SIR BOB GELDOF, Live Aid founder, announcing details of Live 8, a staging of five free concerts to be held simultaneously around the globe on July 2 to raise awareness of poverty in Africa...
...large U.S. oil company would further complicate an already tense trade relationship between the U.S. and China. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow kept up public pressure on Beijing last week to revalue its currency, the renminbi, a move that Washington believes would brake China's surging trade surplus. China has also announced tariffs on its own exports of textiles to pre-empt possible moves by Europe and the U.S. to protect home markets. In this environment, the purchase by a state-owned Chinese oil producer of a U.S. rival no doubt would stir controversy. But in the global oil patch...