Word: surpluses
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...freshmen have kept more than surplus catalogues; they are, friends say, average freshmen...
...make sure everything was on the up and up; it was. As a result, about 1,000 private school students return to the public schools each year. In 1982 Mayor Dianne Feinstein showed her confidence in Alioto by giving $4 million of the city's surplus funds to the schools...
...Sichuan had evolved its own two-crop culture ? rice in summer and wheat or rapeseed in winter. But Peking had ordered two rice crops a year. So Sichuan tried to meet its quotas. When the climate made that impossible, the government had to send grain into this onetime surplus province, and the peasants hungered...
...found Sichuan enjoying change, as a man does when handcuffs and leg irons are removed. The new reforms were quite simple: the peasants could now decide what to plant and when, and whether to sell any surplus to state markets or free markets. If they met their quotas to the state, the surplus was theirs to eat or to sell. The margin is still precariously thin ? just enough for peasants to keep their chins above water. Five
There is no internal solution for China except population control. And no external solution except an industrialization effort that could flood the world's markets. The axis of this second thrust is simple: to employ enough of China's surplus population at low enough wages to export Chinese manufactures to earn back from the rest of the world ? above all, from America ? the food, the timber, the cotton, the edible oils, the meat to keep the people above the starvation line...