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...this age of the green revolution, with crop yields skyrocketing, drought no longer automatically means famine. India, for example, is now in the midst of its worst drought in decades, but because it has a food surplus and a relatively organized system for feeding the hungry, few are expected to starve. Usually it is the combination of drought, mismanagement and civil war that brings famine. Ethiopia is afflicted with all three...
...Government agents. The U.S. expects to sell off the booty as soon as a judge is persuaded that each property was bought, as the Government charges, with narcotics profits traced to three reputed Colombian drug chieftains. Besides horses and real estate, agents in other cases have grabbed a surplus Navy bomber, a $25,000 gold-plated motorcycle, high-speed motorboats, a marina, a topless bar and a pair of Atlanta rib restaurants. Businesses are often temporarily run under Government auspices until confiscation proceedings are completed...
...Japan's trade surplus has piled up and stirred resentment among other nations, the government has been forced to change its stance. National policy now calls for a boost in consumption so that Japanese manufacturers can sell more at home and less overseas. Beginning next year, interest on savings accounts will be taxed at a 20% rate. In the meantime, at least part of the population has started to loosen up. Credit-card use has risen sharply, especially among the young, and some Japanese are going into debt to take vacations or buy TV sets...
...University experienced a $300,000 surplus on its $785.2 million budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1987, the report says. In the same year giving reached $178 million, 23 percent more than last year...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences showed a $9000 surplus on its $242 budget. The University's biggest profit center, the Extension School, took in a $1.7 million surplus on its $15 million budget...