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...billion Budget surplus in 2000, the last year of the Clinton Administration...
...basis of the 1992 consensus [forged during talks in Hong Kong]?in short, "one China, different interpretations." We would facilitate economic exchanges leading eventually to a common market. We would facilitate cultural and educational exchanges, like letting mainland students attend universities in Taiwan, because we have a surplus capacity and they are very short of that ... If the two sides get together, the chance of war will be minimized...
...slightly more stable. An expansion of the value-added tax she pushed through last year is producing higher-than-expected revenues to help refill the country's depleted treasury. Her congressional supporters say they have the numbers to defeat the impeachment bids. And while the opposition has a surplus of complaints, they lack a unifying candidate to oppose her. It's a weakness that isn't lost on the average Filipino. "Is there an alternative?" sighs Dencio Ugok, a taxi driver in Manila. It's hardly a rousing vote of confidence in Arroyo, but for now it will have...
...first way to accomplish these steps, Nolan says, is to return the fiscal surplus to the schools and make sure more money reaches the classroom by reducing “the extraordinarily high” central administration expenses...
...years into a Gore administration. Global warming has been reversed, with the unfortunate consequence of precipitating a "war on glaciers" as they march forth across the Canadian border. Gore excoriates the politicians who seek to take up unjustified invasions of other countries, just to get our $11 trillion budget surplus back in circulation. (Gore's self-deprecating reply: "What part of 'lockbox' don't you understand?") Americans are still fearful to travel abroad - but only because of the spontaneous mass huggings they're in for as gratitude for the country's enlightened good will...