Word: surplus
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Though the KSG had initially projected a $2.9 million deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30 and had foreseen a deficit as large as $500,000 as recently as late May, the school has actually run a small surplus of $84,495, Dean Joseph S. Nye announced Monday...
...billion Amount of surplus originally projected for this year in a White House estimate...
...shirts. "From the Vietnam War," he enthuses, wide-eyed over the frayed and faded garments. "All genuine." The market-stall's proprietor, however, is more guarded than giddy. Dabbing his face with a handkerchief, a flustered Mr. Udom isn't keen on strangers asking about his traffic in military surplus. He's delighted to talk prices (700 baht, which is $17, for said field shirts; 1,000 baht for a U.S. Air Force flight suit), but where he gets all the merchandise from, that's strictly confidential...
...fashion. Shrugging off the E.U.'s straitjacket on borrowing for the third straight year, France and Germany last week all but admitted their economies wouldn't fit the tight rules in 2004. In the U.S., sweeping tax cuts and a costly war in Iraq brought a slide from surplus - that is so mid-'90s! - to a record $455 billion deficit in just three years, with the likelihood of further borrowing next year. With the U.K. government having declared record holes in its public finances last week, why would anyone bother to observe that fusty old Growth and Stability Pact...
Davis has seen his approval rating plummet to a mere 27%. Constituents are outraged that the budget surplus he inherited when he entered office has deteriorated to a deficit of $38 billion, and that he's championing an $8 billion tax increase. But few could have expected that these problems would exact such a swift political price. If the recall proponents get 900,000 valid signatures by mid-July, a costly special election will be held in the fall. Voters will be asked whether Davis should be removed from office--and, on the same ballot, which candidate should replace...