BEIJING — China posted a smaller-than-expected trade surplus Friday because of soaring imports and a pullback in global demand, giving mixed signals about how the economy was faring as some of its best export customers faltered.
During the period between the President's election in 1968 and the beginning of the 1972 campaign, Mr. Kalmbach testified, he kept surplus mon ey from the 1968 campaign in various, checking accounts and safety deposit boxes.
Initiated by the commitment of the mayor and public participation within the municipality Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn in the South-East of Munich, the need for generating new child care facilities led to the realization of an energy-surplus day care center.
Labour fought the election on a policy of running a surplus on day-to-day spending but with borrowing allowed to fund public investment projects.
And again the surplus of Thursday opening days put the all-time record out of reach, with a $27.3m Thursday ranking at 6th place and that second ($22m) Thursday ranking at 11th place.
It's the third Good Food for Good Causes surplus redistribution day, a gastronomic Robin Hood-style affair, liberating food from those with plenty and distributing it to those without.
That it would rush to spend every single dollar of the surplus the day before the transit contract expires is an insult to all 33,000 transit workers.
It came to mind when I read "Bush's Task: Deciding How He'll Spend a Big Surplus" (Business Day, Dec. 31), which discusses George W. Bush's proposal to reduce all income tax rates in a way that would give most tax-cut dollars to the rich: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little".
Signal, on Monday afternoon, and Ensemble SurPlus, on Wednesday afternoon, gave uninterrupted concert readings of 14 works between them, though at the Signal performance, Mr. Lubman and some of the players commented on a few of the scores and offered technical advice.
Mr. Charest's government reported a substantial surplus on Tuesday.
"There's not a shortfall," said Ms. Rylander, who will release a final figure for the surplus on Friday.
