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Yale University finished last fiscal year in the black for the first time in 15 years, taking in an overall budget surplus of $52,000 for 1980-81, a Yale official said yesterday...
...outside events rather than a sign of its unity. The world has become less dependent on expensive crude. Oil demand in the consuming countries fell 8% in 1980 and dropped an additional 8% in the first half of this year. This has helped create a non-Communist world surplus for the past twelve months...
...distributed when weak candidates are eliminated later in the week. Graham is expected, however, to pick up the bulk of number one votes cast for Alvin Thompson, the only other Black in the race, when he is eliminated, and Vellucci should win many transfers from Walter Sullivan's surplus...
That political fact of life spawned the city's electoral slates--groups of candidates who run as a team, hoping to pick up support from their collegues' surplus ballots. The CCA slate, a group of 13 (8 for city council and 5 for school committee) candidates who favor rent control, oppose condominium conversion, and support affirmative action, traditionally elects several members on the strength of transfer ballots in the PR system...
...Chicago, waving a piece of moldy cheese. "American taxpayers are spending almost $2 billion this year buying up dairy products nobody wants." Lyng was referring to the most blatant and expensive byproduct of the nation's complex array of agricultural support programs: the 12.6 billion Ibs. of surplus milk produce that the Government has purchased (at a cost of $1.9 billion) to help stabilize dairy prices...