The rosy surplus-forecasts that underpin today's campaign promises are based on very different spending rates.
Next year it aims to achieve a primary surplus - ie a budget surplus, excluding the costs it pays to service its debts.
Thai exports have picked up well in recent months -- the country now has a trade surplus -- and trade financing is again available.
Both of these effects reduce the surplus-destroying effects of face-to-face haggling.
The long years of surplus--particularly the large budget surpluses of the past seven years--have increased the government's fiscal cushion, as public debt has fallen sharply to a modest 23% of GDP.
And I think the economy, then, the war hinges on the economy since so much of our surplus - so much of our money, which is not so surplus is going to the war.
In our experience, colleges generally have higher fundraising efficiency--the percent of gifts left after subtracting the cost of generating them--than public charities but lower donor dependency--the percent of gifts less surplus--often thanks to large endowments.
But another way it can get around the apparently growing demand for stolen client data in Europe is to spread its wealth management operations farther eastward, where surplus-wielding governments are not as desperate to rake in tax revenue by targeting tax evaders.
He formed the Housing Partnership in 1982 to work with public agencies and private developers on middle-income housing, mostly on surplus city-owned land.
Laurent Sainsot, a Paris-based estate agent who hunts on both sides of the Channel, regularly collects surplus fox-hounds from his English contacts, and finds them excellent at adapting to French conditions.
We had a surplus in 2000 -- we had a surplus a decade ago.
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The MOX facility will blend surplus weapon-grade plutonium with depleted uranium oxide to make mixed oxide fuel for use in existing nuclear power plants.
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With stimulative fiscal and monetary policy bolstering domestic demand, China's current-account surplus has shrunk by two-thirds, from 10% of GDP in 2007.
But is not a stronger yen and a weaker dollar just what is needed to reduce Japan's large current-account surplus and America's current-account deficit?
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An investment boom from 2001-04, for example, paved the way for the ballooning surplus of 2004-07, according to Jonathan Anderson, formerly of UBS. That investment poured into heavy industries, such as aluminium, machine tools, cement, chemicals and steel.
Conrad, speaking to reporters Monday, said one-third of the non-Social Security, non-Medicare surplus should go for taxes, one-third for new spending, and one-third for paying down the publicly held debt.
In a little-noticed comment during the weekend's meetings, Yi Gang, a deputy governor of China's central bank and head of the country's foreign-exchange reserves, said that China aimed to bring its current-account surplus below 4% of GDP within 3-5 years.
To say, then, that in 45 days the world has gone from global-liquidity surplus to drought is to believe that the 25-year boom was a mirage, or else that all its profits were tossed into Miami and Las Vegas construction holes.
According to a report from the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees, the Social Security system is expected to be solvent until about 2037 -- largely because of the surplus in the Trust Fund -- even though the payroll taxes flowing in stop being enough to cover the expenses flowing out in 2017.
After a while, we reached a group of eight workers in cotton shoes, hard hats, and military-surplus uniforms.
Well, this surplus of mulch-bulging stockings forced our hand, before Keldysh had any chance to chart a launch plan.
With such a surplus of job-seekers, the government should be making it easier for employers in all sectors to hire new hands.
And Mr Martin could foresee a large federal surplus in 1998-99.
There was the usual surplus of jargon - other politicians have meetings, Mrs Gillan has bilaterals - and a couple of sharp clashes with Labour MPs.
The organization thinks the root of the problem lies in a surplus of white-collar talent and a reluctance among small companies to hire in-house lawyers and other professionals.
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Even so, his projections showed the current budget moving from deficit into surplus in 2009-10, allowing the rule to be met over the new economic cycle (see chart).
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Proceso Social is also trying to teach families skills that might give them a better chance of finding work in an environment where there is a shortage of skilled labour and a surplus of non-skilled workers.
Ironically, the turning-point came earlier this year, when it was suggested that, as the supply of Treasury bonds dwindles thanks to the federal government's surplus, mortgage-agency debt could replace them as the benchmark used for pricing other fixed-income securities.
The voters had declined to finance new jail construction, and so, in 1993, Arpaio, vowing that no troublemakers would be released on his watch because of overcrowding, procured a consignment of Army-surplus tents and had them set up, surrounded by barbed wire, in an industrial area in southwest Phoenix.
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