Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, the $90 billion figure is based on budget estimates made by Ford Administration economists nearly a year ago and is out of date. Because of tax cuts and other changes, the fiscal 1976 federal budget would show only a $5 billion surplus if Reagan's proposal had been adopted. Said a Reagan aide...
...years ago, energy costs zoomed so unexpectedly that they created a deficit in the Faculty's housing account. So last year, the board raise was large, $150, to make up for the deficit and bring a slight surplus...
...Byzantine manner of Harvard finances, the Faculty needed the surplus to repay a loan from something called the Montague Fund, a pot of money that the Corporation controls and lent part of it to the Faculty for the purchase of storm windows...
...raise did, as expected, produce a surplus, so next year's board raise will be $50. The loan from the Montague Fund, by the way, will take seven years--at $100,000 a year--to repay...
Saudi Arabia, with 85% illiteracy, has the largest trade surplus in the world, while the U.S. has only 2% illiteracy but the largest deficit. Perhaps we had better learn something fast before they get educated over there...