Word: surplus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...price. The companies still compete hard, improving efficiency and cutting prices to win the major share of each year's production contract. Average cost per shell: less than $15. Over five years Dilger used the savings to further refine the cannon, yet still managed to turn back a surplus of $124 million that had been allocated for the GAU8 program. He is proud. Dilger's reward? No promotion. A new, unattractive desk job. In 1980, colleagues say, he quit the service in disgust. Today Bob Dilger, 49, raises corn and cattle on a farm outside Xenia, Ohio...
...Elis had been sagging on the 6-ft, 9, in Trout throughout the game. The Harvard center owned a two-inch advantage over his tallest opponent, but with four Yale defenders swarming around him whenever he touched the ball, his height surplus proved less than overpowering...
...proposal was deceptive and vague. The SS-4s and SS-5s were overdue for the scrap heap anyway. The Soviets may have deployed excess SS-20s precisely so that they could negotiate away some of the surplus to prove their reasonableness. Moreover, Andropov left open the possibility of merely moving the excess SS-20s so that they were east of the Urals; from there the missiles could be put on trains and brought back within range of Europe...
...visit to the U.S., his government also unveiled a package of trade-liberalizing measures, the third in 13 months. It included tariff cuts on such items as tobacco products, chocolate and biscuits. The measures will do little to shrink Japan's huge (estimated $17.5 billion for 1982) trade surplus with the U.S., but Nakasone has promised a review of such nontariff barriers as complex customs requirements and byzantine distribution systems...
...years; that will ensure that Boeing can keep production lines warm and the work force in place until orders spring back, and it will enable Delta to start battling those bumblebees more effectively. As part payment, Boeing will take eleven of Delta's surplus Lockheed TriStar wide bodies and try to resell them overseas...