Word: surplus
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...talk about it on the record, and no one is monitoring the traffic. (BMG in New York would not comment for this article; EMI in London and Universal in Los Angeles declined repeated interview requests.) But it's clear this amorphous gray market is entrenched. The discontinued or surplus CDs, generally known as "cutouts" in the West, are in China called dakou (saw gash) because some albums have a telltale notch in the jewel box and sometimes on the disc itself. Many music buffs prefer them to pirated copies, because the prices are comparable, quality is first rate...
...country waited for the other shoe to drop (somewhere, that is, besides Kenya, Moscow and Bali), it had to do something with all that surplus anxiety. The news and entertainment media were happy to oblige. Stories of random shootings and disappeared and murdered girls were everywhere, from the increasingly graphic, grisly prime-time franchises of CSI and Law & Order to the orange DANGER!-DANGER!-DANGER! graphics of Connie Chung Tonight and the rest of its cable-news cohort. (Curiously, from the news media's perspective, little girls miraculously stopped being abducted as soon as the Washington sniper drew his first...
...created an economic climate that brought our country the greatest growth ever,” Kerry said. “We balanced the budget, created a surplus and started paying down the debt. We had what some called a ‘virtuous cycle...
...they speak about acquaintances who have been fired as if they'd been afflicted with a horrible disease. Many Japanese commentators claim that high unemployment is unacceptable because the nation does not have a well-developed social-welfare system?not seeming to realize that allowing an estimated 17 million surplus workers to remain on the nation's payrolls is a much more expensive version of the same thing...
While deficits loom over the State House, Cambridge actually has $28 million in surplus cash on hand to deal with emergencies. And in recent years the city has increased the amount of property taxes it can levy, which will lend the city council more flexibility when discussions on next year’s budget begin in several weeks...