Word: surplus
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...then received an audit asking how much surplus vaccine would become available, and the UHS senior management team decided to make the sale...
...personal investment accounts to Social Security is likely to hurt America’s youth. If payroll taxes from current workers are diverted to personally-owned stocks and bonds, there is no way to pay benefits to current retirees without digging into the deficit. Having turned the largest budget surplus into the largest budget deficit in history, to the point that every man, woman and child in America owes $25,000, Bush has not established a shred of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility. His misguided approach to reforming social security is likely to add to the deficit...
...Bush will meet with Hu at the APEC summit in Chile this month. The meeting will dwell on economics, a bone of contention between Washington and Beijing that Bush will have to address. China enjoyed a trade surplus with the U.S. of nearly $99 billion through August, and American industrial lobbies accuse China's low-cost labor force of stealing American jobs. Trade conflicts could strike early, as quotas on China's textile exports will end on Dec. 31. While Beijing is looking forward to selling more silks and underwear, the U.S. still enjoys "surge-protection" clauses that...
...Guantánamo. Few expect Bush's second term to be as unilateralist as the first. But he will be skeptical of treaties and international law. ASIA China's boom makes it an indispensable economic partner for Europe and the U.S., but its cheap wages and huge trade surplus lie behind popular complaints about "exporting American jobs" - which Bush may need to respond to. Washington doesn't want European companies to sell high-tech defense goods to Beijing that might give it an edge in a fight over Taiwan. The U.S. has said it can't tolerate a nuclear-armed...
...Student Activities Fund, which funds non-alcoholic campuswide social events, underwent extensive review this summer following a $10,000 surplus that was never allocated to student groups. The fund, a $25,000 trust, is controlled by the Dean of the College...