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Hooded cropped parkas and military coats offer, according to Hartman, a more sophisticated alternative to Patagonia fleeces. These can be found at either Spiewak.com or any army surplus store...
...associations such as Caregroup—an umbrella organization for several hospitals, including the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center—Children’s Hospital is fiscally secure. After going through six years of financial turmoil, the hospital has righted itself and is even pulling in a slight surplus, Davis said...
...glaring exception. It's a basic presidential responsibility, but we sometimes overlook it or think of it as an economic or technical matter rather than a profound moral one. In three short years, this President has so ramped up government spending that he has turned a fiscal surplus into a huge and mounting debt. Far from taking responsibility for the nation's finances, the President has shirked basic housekeeping and foisted crippling debt on the next generation. If a President is in some sense the father of an extended family, Bush is fast becoming a deadbeat dad, living...
...school ran a deficit of $5.9 million in 2002 and eventually had to cut 47 administrative and adjunct faculty positions to return to the black. In 2003, after pledging to cut its deficit in half, the school actually ran a slight surplus...
...shouldn't, although it's easy to see why it might. In 2002 China's trade surplus with the U.S. was $103 billion, twice what Japan's was at the height of Japan bashing 12 years ago. With its abundance of cheap labor, China can undercut American manufacturers of everything from toys to furniture to clothes. China has long pegged its currency, the yuan, to the dollar, and not long ago U.S. policymakers had nothing but praise for the way China managed its foreign exchange. In the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, China did not devalue the yuan...