Word: surplus
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...paramount that candidates and voters—particularly young voters who have the most to lose and the longest to suffer—make fiscal responsibility a priority in the 2004 campaign. We eagerly listened to the election 2000 debates on the tantalizing prospects of a budget surplus, and today youth must make their voices heard by going to the polls to make sure candidates don’t give short shrift to the alarming deficits...
...result was that the University’s annual surplus shrank from $87 million for FY02 to $40 million for FY03...
...obligated under its Taiwan Relations Act to come to the island's defense in case of an attack. But Washington is preoccupied with Iraq and Afghanistan; it also needs Beijing's cooperation on everything from prosecuting the war on terror to containing North Korea to cutting its trade surplus with...
...Street location, everything goes in the trash. According to Dunkin’ Donuts PR rep Louise, who refused to give her last name, company policy explicitly forbids franchise owners from donating surplus food items. “If we don’t think it’s fit enough to sell to our paying customers,” she explains, “then we don’t want to insult people with food that we would throw away otherwise. And it’s not something that we would donate to people...
...minimal amount.” Generally, a group will charge a base price for admission, which Frumin says fluctuates constantly depending on the venue, the night and the event, and sell well in excess of the break even point, which generally hovers around 100 to 200 people. But any surplus is generally plowed back into the party itself for amenities like food and drinks, Frumin says. He describes losing money from his parties as “very difficult,” and is unable to recall any significant incidences of a party losing money...