Word: surpluses
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...improve the school's financial situation appear to have met with more immediate success. Not only has the school managed to eliminate last year's $300,000 deficit, which has been atrribiuted to the construction of the new Taubman building, but the school approaches Commencement with a $100,000 surplus, according to several faculty members...
...LITTLE" seems to be the mantra of the McCracken clan. Mother pilfers desk supplies from her office. Daughter shoplifts for "something to do" and to finance her adolescent drug taking. Brother-in- law is on the fiddle at work and with the tax office. Son-in-law traffics in "surplus" merchandise from the family factory. Even the clan's stern paterfamilias Jack, for all his talk of rectitude, is not above bribing a prying private investigator with a juicy no-bid security contract...
Most campus organizations benefited from a surplus of council funds. Although the finance subcommittee recommended that the council spend a total of $44,000, the council allocated an extra $26000 during the debates...
...surplus of inexpensive student apartments in Philadelphia is what really encourages students to move off-campus, she says...
Fear of a massive retrenchment from the U.S. market by Japanese investors is also unfounded. Japan has been earning huge trade surpluses lately by buying less abroad and keeping exports high. In February it sold $10.23 billion more goods overseas than it bought, the biggest monthly surplus in history. Much of that excess capital should flow right back into the U.S. through purchases of stocks and bonds and by other forms of investments. Last week, for example, Sony began hiring for a TV-assembly plant it is opening this summer outside Pittsburgh that will eventually employ 1,000 people...