Word: surpluses
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...dean cited generous revenue from the $350 million Harvard Campaign, surprising stability in student aid expenses, and successful energy conservation efforts to explain a $205.000 surplus in the Faculty's coffers after the 1981-82 year, the Faculty's sixth consecutive surplus. Last year's budget report predicted a $312.000 deficit...
...addition, Rosovsky predicted a $200.000 surplus for the end of 1982-83, the first prediction of a surplus in recent years...
...Government should buy up most of the surplus grain and convert it into alcohol for gasohol. This would sop up the grain glut...
Last week's heavy bidding was even more noteworthy in view of the current worldwide glut of oil that has driven down prices for gasoline and other petroleum products. The oil companies, nevertheless, were looking ahead to the time when the surplus ends and prices once again rise. A report published last week by the Paris-based International Energy Agency also looked to higher prices in the future. The organization's experts predict that oil prices will continue to decrease in real terms this year and next, but will begin to rise after 1985, when supplies dwindle...
...Jose entered the fall term with a $5 million budget deficit and without the services of 154 teachers, who had been laid off during the summer. Ten elementary schools had been shut down to save money, creating shorter classes and crowded classrooms. With the depletion of the state surplus that since 1978 had buffered the effects of Proposition 13, San Jose had to renege on a promise made in January to offer a 6% pay increase to teachers. The teachers, in turn, filed a formal grievance with the school board. But they are still in the classrooms. "At least they...