While Mr. Thompson headed the Design Museum in London, it erased a $2.2 million deficit and produced surpluses for six years, according to the Cooper-Hewitt.
After inheriting a Republican deficit and a near-junk-bond credit rating, he says he produced surpluses for the town, raised its rating, reduced staff, improved services, revitalized the downtown and waterfront and cleaned up pollution.
After he inherited a Republican deficit and a near-junk-bond credit rating there in 1994, he said he had produced surpluses, raised the credit rating, reduced staff, improved services, revitalized the depressed downtown and cleaned up the polluted waterfront.
"Some districts' long-term efforts to recruit and improve working conditions and salaries, coupled with the economic downturn, have produced surpluses," said Tom Carroll, the executive director of National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, a research organization based at Teachers College at Columbia University.
Previous research had shown that the culture built large urban centers with fortifications, had the administrative skills to develop extensive irrigation systems and produced surpluses to pay for fine ceramics, jewelry and bronze goods.
Bumblebees can be nearly twice as big as honeybees, can sting multiple times and don't produce surplus honey.
That produces surplus gasoline, which the refineries export to the East Coast of the United States, experts said.
Faced with uncertainties on their land rights, the smallholding subsistence farmers who form the backbone of Ethiopian agriculture became reluctant to risk producing surplus foods for market.
Instead of waiting for expensive GM solutions that may never arrive – and will ruin us if they do – we have worked with communities who were able to produce surplus food in times of drought by returning to their traditional varieties.
