Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take, for example, the Carter campaign brochure that claims Carter's reorganization of Georgia's state government "slashed administrative costs by 50 per cent" and left a surplus of about $116 million. Well, Stanford quotes Carter's news director admitting that no statistics are available to substantiate the 50 per cent claim...
Although exact budget figures are not yet available, the budget projection, which predicted a $50,000 surplus this year, may also turn out to have been overly optimistic, according to a source in the Financial Office...
...export boom has already generated a Japanese trade surplus of $4.8 billion this year and has caused testiness among Japan's trading partners, who do not like the idea of buying so much more from Japan than they are selling there. Political pressures are mounting for countermeasures. One of them could well be an increase in the exchange value of the yen to blunt the competitive edge of Japanese exports, a subject that doubtless was raised discreetly at the economic talks in Puerto Rico. Prime Minister Miki so far has argued that the situation is temporary and should redress...
Despite the deficit in trade with England, however, American exports to the entire world were profitable enough in 1769 to provide a trade surplus of more than £200,000. When the Continental Congress opened American ports to all trade with all nations last April, it was the first opportunity for free competition in a century. Says Massachusetts Congressman John Adams: "Foreign nations, all the world I hope, will be invited to come here. And our people [will be] permitted to go to all the world except the dominion of him [King George III] who is adjudged to be Nerone...
...gargantuan murals, which used to be thrown away, are suddenly being bought up by European museums. Som-boonsuk Niyomsiri, one of Bangkok's foremost poster painters, has gone on to become Thailand's biggest film producer−under the name of Piak Poster. His latest movie, American Surplus, deals with the discrimination suffered by the bastard offspring of black American GIs stationed in Thailand during the Viet...