Word: surpluses
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences still faces a projected $75 million deficit for Fiscal Year 2010, interim FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles said yesterday, despite assurances from Knowles’ predecessor last year that the school would be running a surplus at the end of the decade...
...over the last year she came out of her shell a bit. We were in a surplus store and she saw an air horn behind the counter. She said, "Look dad, doesn't that look like something we could use to wake up [Jackass director] Jeff Tremaine with?" I was so touched and proud - I was like, "Awww, she wrote her first...
...annual output of the entire Estonian economy 15 years ago. The economy, once a basket case, is now one of Europe's most dynamic, racing along at a 12% growth clip - faster than China. Estonia is one of only two new European Union members to have a budget surplus, and its national debt will have all but disappeared by the end of the decade. Naturally, there are growing pains: the unemployment rate has fallen so sharply, from 14% in 2000 to about 4% today, that businesses are scrambling to find workers. But even if growth slows a little...
...foreign land by building automated sewage systems out of discarded lead pipes, living in burlap huts, and showering with a hollow gourd. These poor souls inevitably suffer from severe culture shock when they re-enter the United States. They find it materialistic and complain about the sheer surplus of caramel macchiatos. This is not what happened to me when I returned from Bella Italia. If I did experience any culture shock, it was in the jarring lack of fur in the already borderline-gauche clothing worn by denizens of Cambridge. Fur is everywhere in this year’s designer...
...sustain solid growth, the sources of demand need to be rebalanced. The current recovery has been fueled by business investment more than any recovery since the 1950s. But investment cannot grow faster than GDP indefinitely. The second pillar of the recovery has been a rising trade surplus, fueled by strong growth in the U.S. and China and the lowest price-adjusted value of the yen since 1986. That, too, has limits...