Word: surpluses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fluctuate from week to week and year to year. The solution, therefore, is to develop a flexible budget—not for FiCom to throw up its hands and refuse to manage its money at all. It could, for example, allocate a weekly target and set aside a small surplus fund to cover particularly large packages. Or, it could use a monthly budgeting scheme to allow for particularly high and low weeks...
...remarkable for its blending of the fantastic and the real, introducing stylized elements to tell a story of a woman’s mundane life and her rather less mundane afterlife. Ultimately, the play is ambitious and beautiful both visually and in its underlying ideas, but its surplus of style keeps it from a true emotional resonance...
...Ally McBeal” is on at nine, and things are looking up for the twenty-first century. Why shouldn’t we smile? The cloning of Dolly the sheep has at last muted the virulent debate over bioethics, we’ve secured a budget surplus only a fool would deem exhaustible and the storm clouds of Cold War anxiety have retreated from view. America’s the prettiest girl at the dance. Of course, the news isn’t all sunny. Our national champion Michael Tyson dallied in cannibalism in a recent bout with Evander...
...deter foreign investors. And ordinary folk felt it would unduly burden low- and middle-income consumers. The government's gambit turned into an embarrassment when Financial Secretary Henry Tang, the moving force behind the gst, underestimated his numbers and revealed last month that Hong Kong had posted a surplus of $7 billion for the year, and would give back $2.4 billion of that in tax breaks. The upshot: the government didn't really need the extra cash...
Balance of trade [CHINA] $177.5 billion surplus...