The metal-casting industry once had generous trade surpluses with the rest of the world, but imported castings have increased their share of the American market by 50percentt since the mid-1990's; they now have 15percentt of the market.
But South Korea has over $300 billion in foreign exchange reserves and a generous current account surplus, so it should avoid a balance of payments crisis.
In A Primate's Memoir, Stanford University neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky recalls how a generous army donation of surplus night goggles utterly transformed the field of carnivorology.
Democrats said that a large increase in anticipated federal budget surpluses permitted more generous drug benefits.
And although the city, with its unprecedented budget surpluses, has been generous to several organizations, the great bulk of the money will have to be raised privately.
All of this when New York City has a budget surplus and is committing generous capital dollars to building two minor-league baseball stadiums: for the Yankees in the St . Georgesection of Staten Island and for the Mets in Coney Island.
Likely related to the fact that Chretien's Liberal government was operating at a surplus and hence was relatively generous, the MFA was well received by all provinces and territories.
Given this possibility, Varoufakis may have believed he was making other EU finance ministers a generous offer by proposing to cut the primary surplus from 4% to 1% of GDP, rather than all the way to zero.
"If you say, 'We have a $48 million surplus, so you can be more generous with constituencies or doling out labor contracts,' that would be a huge mistake," Mr. Kessel said.
Industry and services are both growing faster than before (at annual rates of 6.1% and 7.1% respectively), exports are up by a fifth, and the current account, after 24 years in the red, entered surplus in 2001.Mr Singh was moderately generous, tinkering with direct-taxation allowances and with excise duties.
