Jack is the only budget director in history to preside over a budget surplus for three consecutive years.

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Bumper crops in the past three years produced a surplus of cheap grapes.

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And as the only OMB director in history to preside over a budget surplus for three consecutive years, Jack Lew knows a thing or two about making government work.

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Nationally, the unemployment rate remains near a three-decade low, the federal government still has a budget surplus and over the past three months consumer confidence has risen, according to the Conference Board, a business lobby.

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Thanks to this innovation, over the years the social-security deficit was first checked and then turned into surplus in the three years from 1999.

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It says that in Suffolk with three secondary free schools, there will be a 28% surplus in secondary school places.

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Schleswig-Holstein plans to generate three times as much renewable energy as it consumes and to export the surplus south and west.

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The export surplus in financial services and insurance was 2.6% of GDP in the first three quarters of 2011.

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