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There's something deeply nostalgic about watching a U.S. Treasury Secretary fly to Asia to press a nation that is running a massive trade surplus with the U.S. to revalue its currency?and then come home with nothing to show for his trip but soothing waffle. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the target of U.S. ire was Japan; now it's China, from which Treasury Secretary John Snow has just returned with assurances that the Chinese will soon show "flexibility" in their currency policies. For a while, trade tensions with Japan were a focus of U.S. domestic politics...
Though the KSG had initially projected a $2.9 million deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30 and had foreseen a deficit as large as $500,000 as recently as late May, the school has actually run a small surplus of $84,495, Dean Joseph S. Nye announced Monday...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) closed with a small surplus as well and expects a repeat performance next year, according to Eric P. Buehrens, the school’s executive dean for administration. However, a confluence of factors—including the low payout numbers, investments in building and renovations and plans for future expansion—all mean money out of HMS’s budget and the “potential for significant deficits...
...billion Amount of surplus originally projected for this year in a White House estimate...
...shirts. "From the Vietnam War," he enthuses, wide-eyed over the frayed and faded garments. "All genuine." The market-stall's proprietor, however, is more guarded than giddy. Dabbing his face with a handkerchief, a flustered Mr. Udom isn't keen on strangers asking about his traffic in military surplus. He's delighted to talk prices (700 baht, which is $17, for said field shirts; 1,000 baht for a U.S. Air Force flight suit), but where he gets all the merchandise from, that's strictly confidential...