The political debate focuses on those numbers, the deficits (declining much more slowly than forecast – with no surplus in sight until the end of the next term of government) and economic growth (unchanged from the May budget at levels too slow to make much of a difference to unemployment).
After being fenced in by 140 characters or the often dry annals of Quora or Formspring, it was great to have the information surplus of sights and sounds at my disposal when interacting with a human online.
LONDON — You need blinkers to navigate a big city, something to screen out the teeming surplus of ambient sights and sounds.
And it's keeping faith with its "living within our means" mantra by (very) gradually reducing the deficit, although a surplus remains out of forecasting sight.
Wall Street Journal: "State's Rare Sight: A Budget Surplus".
And the prospect of a surplus in 2018-19 is a very welcome sight.
Yet as Raghuram Rajan of Chicago University's Booth School of Business points out, the crisis has lasted a long time and there is no end in sight: so the situation may soon be ripe for a cooler exchange between surplus and deficit countries.
And like an archer facing strong headwinds, the chancellor will almost certainly be forced to adjust his sights in the budget this week to meet his promise of a surplus in the government's finances by 2020.
They store surplus food items, especially those containing fat, and will learn to hide such food out of the sight of other common ravens.
