Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canadian government that is increasingly inimical to U.S. business interests. The prospect does not worry Arctic Gas officials. They emphasize that Canadian firms, having found large deposits of natural gas in the Mackenzie River delta, would not only help to finance the pipeline but also use it to export surplus gas to the U.S. Adds William Brackett, the consortium's American vice chairman: "We've been shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway for years without any friction between the nations. Besides, if Canada were to close the pipeline for some reason, the U.S. could retaliate easily. Almost...
...states should have the Kansas problem: What to do with so much money? Even as New York's Governor Hugh Carey was trying to wring $1 billion in revenue measures out of his legislature to help wipe out a huge deficit, frugal Kansas was sitting on a budget surplus of $179 million. Now the state government is being badgered by all sorts of groups that want cuts from the pie. City governments are clamoring for some form of revenue sharing. Educators want more for schools. There are pleas that state taxes be lowered, even though they have not been...
...lack of self-sufficiency on waste and overconsumption by the rich. The First World may indeed consume a greater share of the planet's output than is warranted by its share of the population; but it produces a greatly disproportionate share of the world's manufactured goods, surplus commodities, inventions and technology...
...exports over imports, v. a trade deficit of $3.1 billion in 1974. Two reasons: the recession slowed down imports, especially of oil; and American inflation, though high, was lower than in most other major industrial countries, increasing the competitiveness of made-in-U.S. products abroad. Next year the surplus is likely to shrink; as production revives in the U.S., the quickening tempo will pull in more imports...
...year-old former governor of Georgia said he cut the number of bureaucracies in Georgia from 300 to 22 and left the state with $116 million dollars in budget surplus. He reaffirmed his intention to run in all state presidential primaries...