Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know John," Crooks tells him. "I'm under pressure to produce no deficit, possibly even a surplus. I have to be careful about freebies...
Even so, there can never be a true surplus of Woody Allen. The man is perhaps the most inventive clown since the days of the silents. Indeed, much of the movie could be played without a sound track. With such assets, it seems a pity that too much of Allen's comedy, with its incessant references to delicatessen, Jewish parents and neurotic hang-ups, remains on the streets of Manhattan...
...climate control system, whose cost was estimated at $500,000 five years ago, really can't be installed until the Fogg gets its addition, which Slive says will cost at least $7,000,000. And so he sits in his office, surrounded by a selection of the Fogg's surplus holdings, waiting for the knock of some donor who will liberate them...
...miniature back forties, filled patios with planters (often made with old washtubs or auto tires), and deluged seed companies with orders. Manufacturers of fertilizer and tools chalked up record sales, and many are predicting even headier harvests in 1975. So many green-thumbers took to canning and freezing their surplus vegetables last year that jars and lids were all but impossible to find...
...always makes refunds when there's a surplus, but it doesn't ask customers to make up its deficits, which is why the agency is at best a break-even organization," Blake said...