The trade deficit reflects the fact that Wakandans have a surplus of American currency.
You want to convince your potential employer that you have a surplus of benefits before revealing your risks.
Best of all, instead of a debt burden of 1.483 trillion Euros, Greece will have a surplus of 306 billion Euros by 2030!
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One would think a country of 1.4 billion people would have a surplus of workers, but hiring in China is getting tougher than ever.
Most of them have a surplus of clever ideas about what to do with the money (this is a world of task-forces and initiatives, of research agendas and development projects).
We now have a surplus of everything anyone could possibly want, all made by those machines and all we humans have to do is use what we want when we wish to.
In the past we have argued that colleges have produced a surplus of college graduates (at least in terms of the labor market demand for workers with a college education).
The current U.S. astronaut aboard Mir, Mike Foale, has put on a happy face despite the setbacks, but CNN has been told a lack of oxygen and a surplus of carbon dioxide may have contributed to a series of onboard mistakes which threatened the health of the station and could have killed the crew.
Contrary to what the study seems to suggest, my understanding is that New York City currently has a surplus of electric power capacity and will continue to have a surplus for several years.
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Oh yes, and despite a financial crisis that has cost the government around 20% of GDP, Iceland is expected to have a budget surplus by by 2013.
Matthew Gray of Jefferies, an investment bank, reckons that by 2020 the ETS will have an accumulated surplus of 845m permits, against a planned cap that year of 1.8 billion permits.
And polls have consistently shown that a significant majority of Americans prefer to use the budget surplus primarily to pay down the national debt and to bolster Social Security and Medicare (as Gore is urging) rather than for a large tax cut as Bush has proposed.
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The next surprise is that, after years of profligacy, the euro area as a whole will have a budget surplus this year for the first time in at least half a century.
There was the usual surplus of jargon - other politicians have meetings, Mrs Gillan has bilaterals - and a couple of sharp clashes with Labour MPs.
This rebalancing is still a work in progress, but everybody is on record now saying surplus countries and deficit countries both have to be mindful of their policies and think about the adjustments that they need so that we can sustain economic growth and keep our borders open to goods and services over the long term.
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