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...surplus is not that significant an amount next to the Faculty's overall $50 million unrestricted budget. But officials from Dean Rosovsky on down are pleased that the money-saving measures Rosovsky introduced in the mid-'70s after a series of deficits have kept the Faculty in the black...
...surplus comes after a $322,000 surplus in fiscal 1977-78 and an $80,000 surplus the previous year. But don't start dividing that amount by the number of students at the College to figure out how much money you'll save on tuition next year...
Even for a man of Ludwig's wealth, the Jari project can be a drain. His executives believe that funding for the project is catch as catch can. When Ludwig has surplus funds from his many ventures, he pours them into Jari. When his cash flow is tight-a situation that even a billionaire occasionally encounters-everybody is told to start saving paper clips...
...supply and the competitiveness of U.S. products. Consequently, export growth has been sluggish, and foreign goods have poured into the U.S. at an ever increasing rate. Coupled with the nation's increasing dependence on foreign oil, this has meant that the U.S. has managed to eke out a trade surplus only twice since 1971, running up a cumulative deficit of $59 billion in those years...
...recruited to assist Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, in his quest for the presidency. Appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1933, he became one of F.D.R.'s most powerful advisers, supporting sweeping social welfare programs, tough Government regulation of industry and subsidies to farmers for not planting surplus crops. Appointed Governor of Puerto Rico by Roosevelt in 1941, Tugwell continued his crusades for social reform and the equitable distribution of wealth. Upon resigning five years later, he resumed his academic pursuits, laboring in his final years on proposals for a new U.S. Constitution...