"A Coming Doctor Surplus?" Working Papers for a New Society, Winter 1977, reprinted in the Washington Post and other papers.
As Zimbabweans saw their children starve and their life expectancy plummet, he printed millions of surplus ballot papers to stuff into boxes in rigged elections.
While the state had closed the books in the black in some previous years, too, its surpluses on paper were often instantly overtaken by larger projected deficits for the year ahead.
Party members have complained about the printing of surplus ballot papers, irregularities in the voters' roll, traditional leaders "frogmarching" villagers to the polls, people feigning illiteracy to be "assisted", voters being bussed to faraway constituencies, and the malign influence of the military.
At the macro level, we focus on skill shortage and surplus in this paper, which seems appropriate for the analysis at hand.
If your child has a surplus of stray papers floating around in his backpack or locker, consider an accordion-style file.
In the storage area downstairs, there was always a surplus of bandages and paper towels and light bulbs, as well as batteries of every size.
But a surplus of good will papers over shortcomings.
And more to the point, he stuck to it, even when by 1998 the budget was turning up bigger surpluses, at least on paper, than had ever been expected.Thanks to the president's conversion, the fiscal profiles of the parties themselves have been turned upside down.
"These budget surpluses are just on paper for now, and the market would rather see tax cuts than spending on Social Security," Myers says.
Assuming that discretionary spending does grow with the economy, the Auerbach-Gale paper projects a surplus over the next decade of only around $350 billion -- not even enough to make room for Al Gore's tax cuts, let alone Mr. Bush's.
