Word: surplus
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When he arrived in 1991, Knowles found the Faculty in dire economic straits, carrying an annual deficit of more than $10 million. Knowles stressed strict, sometimes controversial, fiscal discipline that brought FAS budgets under control. Eleven years later, FAS is running a multi-million dollar surplus...
...Perhaps even more remarkable than France's surplus of superb players is that it is not a happenstance but the deliberate product of a footballing factory - and there's plenty more where they came from. "Since 1998, the world has taken notice of French football and asked, 'Where did this come from all of a sudden?'" remarks Aimé Jacquet, who selected and coached the French team that won the 1998 World Cup and has since directed France's national coaching and development program. "But this was the result of a long, painstaking, carefully planned process to organize and teach...
Think of them as the by-products of the French football factory: the production line that spews out a plethora of outstanding players also churns out plenty of world-class coaches. The World Cup will serve as a showcase for the country's managerial surplus, with Frenchmen at the helm of four of the 32 squads bound for Asia. "It's a great tribute to the French development system," says former French star Didier Deschamps, who last year ended his playing career to become head coach of Monaco. "Since national teams can't recruit French players, they recruit French coaches...
...your newspaper has some problems with. Witness last year’s Crimson poll question, “Would you support a living wage if it meant your tuition would go up?,” which very coyly implanted the idea of that outcome, despite the $100 million operating surplus and the fact that the recommendations’ cost was estimated at around $5 million. That still gives us $95 million to play with, folks...
With the Taliban vanquished, Bush has to start worrying about political enemies at home. No. 1 on his list: Tom Daschle, the Senate Democratic leader who last week ended the unofficial ban on full-contact politics with a speech that clobbered the President for throwing away the budget surplus on a massive tax cut. Bush's domestic agenda, Daschle charged, "is being written by a wing of the Republican Party that isn't interested in fiscal discipline...