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...billion Federal budget surplus for the first 10 months of the 2001 fiscal year...
...largest-ever in dollar terms - will break Brazil's downward spiral of plummeting currency values, rising debt and poor growth prospects. Crucially, the package has the support of the main political parties set to contest October's elections in Brazil. Under its terms, Brazil must maintain a budget surplus of 3.75% of gdp: if the winner of the election does not meet that target, Brazil would forfeit most of the funds, 80% of which have been deferred until next year. Although financial markets and the Brazilian real reacted positively to the IMF's actions - and to the apparent about-face...
...pleasure of seeing the person from whom we are subletting stumbling through the room late at night to connect her computer to the phone line or to make tea. If it hadn’t been for a generous friend staying in Washington who let me borrow a surplus mattress from the dorm room he’s renting for the summer, I’d be sleeping directly on the floor. This summer’s hardships, however, are just the latest in a series of bad experiences in the jungle of summer sublets...
...that can allow three simultaneous landings if needed. Despite well-publicized cost overruns and snafus with its baggage-handling system that delayed its opening, the airport now seems to have its financial house in order. A self-sufficient business using no city tax dollars, it had $44 million in surplus revenues last year (down from $76 million in 2000). It ranks near the top in most surveys of consumer satisfaction and has attracted six new carriers in the past year, providing fresh competition in a hub dominated by United Airlines...
...that can allow three simultaneous landings if needed. Despite well-publicized cost overruns and snafus with its baggage-handling system that delayed its opening, the airport now seems to have its financial house in order. A self-sufficient business using no city tax dollars, it had $44 million in surplus revenues last year (down from $76 million in 2000). It ranks near the top in most surveys of consumer satisfaction and has attracted six new carriers in the past year, providing fresh competition in a hub dominated by United Airlines...