Word: surplus
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...historically cash-strapped Kennedy School of Government has completed a stunning financial turnaround, posting a $1.1 million surplus in the 2004 fiscal year after a series of painful budget cuts...
...Executive Dean J. Bonnie Newman said that early projections show the school generating a modest surplus again in the 2005 fiscal year—a remarkable contrast to the school’s $5.9 million shortfall in fiscal year...
...fundraising boost, Nye, who now holds the Sultan of Oman chair in international affairs, said yesterday that much of the school’s surplus can be attributed to cost-saving measures and structural reforms...
...After seven Budget surpluses, during a time of buoyant revenues, Costello could have retired more debt and spent more on public investment that will sustain future growth - in infrastructure and human capital. Indeed, these surpluses have been slight exercises in prudence in an era of prosperity. Asset sales, such as the partial float of Telstra, have helped create the illusion of fiscal frugality. Other than two hard years of spending cuts to rein in Labor's excesses, Canberra has barely been squeezed. Compared with the hard, lean predators who dominated the Expenditure Review Committee in the Hawke-Keating years...
...architects. But even when pared-down Modernism was at the height of its prestige, there was a countertradition of glorious excess. "Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture," an exhibition that runs from Oct. 9 through Jan. 16 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traces an aesthetic of surplus and superabundance that continually bursts forth in clothing, buildings, automobiles and objects--a taste for luxury, spectacle and even pure, shameless glitz that has exploded unmistakably into the present. --BY RICHARD LACAYO