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...Smith deferred to Associate Dean for Finance Deena Giancotti, who responded that the approximately $1 billion budget would run an estimated $28 million deficit for the coming fiscal year, in contrast to the $11.2 million surplus for the fiscal year ending in June...
...Undergraduate Council is closing the 2007-2008 school year with an unprecedented $10,000 surplus, UC Treasurer Anthony R. Britt ’10 announced on Sunday. The UC will use the surplus, left over after the final batch of grants, to fund any remaining grants for the year. The remaining money will be rolled over to next year’s budget. Two years ago, grants that came at the end of the year were cut by 45 percent; groups that would have received full funding earlier in the year only received about half of what they requested. Last...
...This year Cambridge citizens and business owners paid $7.36 in city property taxes for every $1,000 worth of residential property they owned, and $17.24 for every $1,000 worth of commercial property. Healy said that the city was trying to offset some of the new costs with surplus funds from past years and from the city’s hotel and motel tax. The finance committee will hold at least two more hearings to discuss specific segments of the budget before voting on it on May 19. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached...
...anachronistic: one student called Marxist ideology ‘retro’ in 1994, likening it to “Easy-Rider biker gear.” Nowadays, it’s downright antique, the antithesis of hip. Imagine a communist partygoer, desperately trying to turn the conversation to surplus value over the strains of Soulja Boy’s new single, “Yahhh!” Unlucky fellow.What was once a fiery outlet for leftist political fervor has been spoilt by a suite of suppressive bourgeois mechanisms; in its place slips the anesthetic comfort of supporting Barack...
...elected, Lugo would be the first former Catholic bishop ever to become President of a nation. He has also pledged to tear up electricity price contracts with neighbors like Brazil, deals that he charges cheat Paraguay out of hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of its vast surplus power. "Our victory will mark a historic break with the past," says Lugo's campaign manager, Miguel Lopez. "A spontaneous, popular movement taking power in Paraguay. It's incredible!" In a recent speech, Lugo, 57, who leads most voter polls with as much as 39% approval, promised that "Paraguay will...