Word: surplus
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...wine trade, should have listed wine production by country in billions of gallons rather than millions of gallons, as several alert readers pointed out. The second chart, on the Global Investing page, misrepresented the health of two corporate pension plans. As of Aug. 30, Sempra Energy had a pension surplus of $168 million, and Allegheny Technologies had a pension deficit of $32 million, according to revised estimates by UBS Warburg. We attributed our figures to a UBS study, but after we published the story, UBS amended its estimates, saying it found it had begun its study with faulty data...
...their Houses during the summer for retrieval at the start of the next term. Each year, they are reminded that the items are not insured by the College, and that they are storing at their own risk. Yet so many students have taken advantage of this option that the surplus items have spilled out of predetermined storage areas into hallways and other forbidden areas, earning the College a citation from the Cambridge Fire Department...
...surplus lending was, in Hudson's opinion, extraordinary and unexplained. "I can think of no good commercial reason for ... these features of the structure, and have seen no evidence of any," Hudson wrote. "I conclude, based on the evidence I have seen, that it is probable that the transaction, taken as a whole, was both fraudulent and corrupt." Hudson's report found a responsive audience in Baldeosingh, who stopped Petrotrin from doing business with Citibank and pushed the government to investigate. "We had an opportunity to recover a significant amount of money," Baldeosingh says. Instead, Trinidad's elected officials turned...
...billion Federal budget surplus for the first 10 months of the 2001 fiscal year...
...largest-ever in dollar terms - will break Brazil's downward spiral of plummeting currency values, rising debt and poor growth prospects. Crucially, the package has the support of the main political parties set to contest October's elections in Brazil. Under its terms, Brazil must maintain a budget surplus of 3.75% of gdp: if the winner of the election does not meet that target, Brazil would forfeit most of the funds, 80% of which have been deferred until next year. Although financial markets and the Brazilian real reacted positively to the IMF's actions - and to the apparent about-face...