The vanishing budget surplus, campaign-finance reform and the rest have come and gone, leaving not a wrack behind.
Congress and President Bush return from vacations this week to face a vanishing budget surplus, a limping economy and a long list of competing spending priorities -- in other words, a recipe for a bruising political collision over spending and taxes.
A8 NATIONAL A10-13 High Stakes for Congress As It Debates Bush Budget Congress returns from its recess this week and President Bush from his ranch to face a vanishing budget surplus, a limping economy and a long list of competing spending priorities -- in other words, a recipe for a bruising political collision over spending and taxes.
Although teaching unions have been trying to warn about the coming storm, it has been hard to whip up interest in the rising costs of pension and national insurance contributions that are just part of the problem now facing schools and their vanishing budgets.
For years in Michigan, the only certainty seemed to be a vanishing state budget.
But he said he was "deeply concerned" about the suddenly vanishing federal budget surplus in Washington and the likelihood that President Bush and Congress would have to dip into the Social Security trust fund.
Only last autumn the official EU audit suggested that up to 5% of the Union budget had vanished in a haze of fraud or misspending.Yet, on the whole, financial control by Brussels is better these days than it was.
Argentina's budget surplus has vanished, and its trade surplus has been artificially boosted by curbs on imports of drugs, processed food and cars.
The United States current-account deficit -- a measure of the net exchange in goods, services and gifts among countries -- is approaching 5percentt of annual economic output, he said, and the government's budget surplus has vanished.
Add them to the vast backlog of people on employment support allowance, awaiting work capability assessments – and those savings written into Osborne's budgets have also vanished as the system collapsed.
The goal of balancing the federal budget has all but vanished, replaced by the idea that deficits should be reduced to sustainable levels.
