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...bigger role in the making of international economic policies. He pledged increased U.S. contributions (now $1.9 billion a year) to international development agencies like the World Bank. But he noted that Venezuela and other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries "have a responsibility to use their surplus wealth to meet the needs of the world's people...
...raise to transit workers and avert a threatened subway and bus strike. And the cost of removing last winter's mountainous snows has strained the budgets of some localities in the Northeast and Midwest. Not so, however, in the Sunbelt. For example, Houston, reveling in a record surplus of $24 million, is budgeting to train 500 new cops this year, more than triple the average for the past decade...
...statehouses, there have been some dramatic turnarounds. Only three years ago, New York State faced a serious threat that a city insolvency would drag the state into bankruptcy too. Now the state expects a surplus of $360 million this year and is debating how much to cut taxes. Michigan last November projected a deficit of $78.4 million in its 1978 fiscal year, ending Sept. 30. Now it expects a $68.4 million surplus, and Governor William Milliken is proposing reductions in property and income taxes. Budget Director Gerald Miller agreed with a reporter that the estimate of a deficit...
...There has been much publicity trying to discourage people from applying," Johnson said. "There still is a big surplus of applicants, more than...
Gray Lady Down is that old favorite about the damaged submarine resting on the bottom, its occupants growing ever more fearful that they may be done in either by a deficit of air or a surplus of water (Will those hatches hold at this depth?). Topside, expensive efforts, often frustrated, are made to rescue them...