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    deficit


    1. She wasn't alone in that deficit, but since the others wanted to know also, Pim sighed and looked at the ceiling, still chewing


    2. deficit in a bank account caused by withdrawing more money than is paid in


    3. His emphases on „pump priming" and deficit spending simply don"t work


    4. “The president and his supporters call for tax increases as a means to cover the deficit, but higher taxes cannot eliminate the deficit


    5. This bill, ushered by Republicans and Democrats from both houses of Congress, promises to reduce the nation‘s deficit by $56 billion over the next seven years, not to mention increasing revenues that, everything being equal, will further reduce deficits over that period


    6. 5 million in deficit


    7. But that’s not all, a deficit of almost $2,450,000 from last year will also be tossed into council’s lap


    8. Overtime has been a contributing factor to the current year’s projected deficit


    9. If Perot had won, what kind of a presidency would this peculiarly conspiracy minded man have had? His main focus would have been on issues like term limits, campaign finance reform, and the deficit, as that is what he promised while running


    10. Deficit Spending - Question: What would happen to you and your

    11. “Yep,” said Charles, “so, even if we had planned a level of spending that would be balanced by expected revenue, there would be a deficit, unless something was done about it


    12. To avoid that deficit and balance the budget, government would have to cut spending or raise taxes


    13. The spending is using real resources that could be used for other things, while whether there is a deficit or not is just a matter of financing and turns out not to be terribly important


    14. But why doesn’t the deficit matter, too?”


    15. Holding the government spending level constant, people could actually be worse off with a balanced budget because the interest they give up to balance it might be greater than the interest charges on a federal deficit


    16. “In other words, if they had kept their assets and run a deficit, they could have paid the interest on the deficit out of their asset earnings and had something left over?” said Dad


    17. We can pay taxes to avoid a federal deficit or have the deficit and some earning assets


    18. He indicates that the first ten year costs of the Senate bill has a $460 billion deficit and the second decade cost has a $1


    19. Our trade deficit with Canada and Mexico has increased from


    20. double again in two years and Obama has projected that the deficit will be $20 trillion in 2020

    21. ” If current tax policy is extended …the deficit will


    22. Also see other supporting expenses in 2004, according to the source of the Brazilian authorities that projects deficit of Social Welfare of approximately 30 billion of real; also expense of 40 billion of real that are required as investments in education to recover the social debt with the children in the plan of the elementary education; among so much other needs of billion of real for investment in other areas


    23. deficit and so on


    24. Instead they have relied on the expedients of progressive taxation, deficit financing, selective nationalization, the mixed economy,


    25. the deficit to increase? Congress is what happened!


    26. One of the purposes of the 1974 Budge Act was to eliminate deficit spending


    27. But here is the actual legacy of that legislation: in the twenty years prior to the Budget Act, the budget deficit averaged just 1 percent of GDP and $30 billion in 1994 dollars


    28. In the twenty years since the enactment of the 1974 Act, the average budget deficit has been $170 billion per year, and 3


    29. Deficit spending is an unconscionable form of fiscal child abuse


    30. And since the Constitution clearly states the responsibilities of the House (Section 1, Section 7, and Section 8), how can they blame the deficit on Reagan? More

    31. tion of the estate tax, switched sides yesterday out of concern for the rising deficit


    32. three times the inflation rate every year! Although these two senators decry the federal deficit every year, they also vote to uphold the right of Congressmen to spend over $25 billion every year on


    33. order to avoid increasing the deficit, unless a super-majority of 60


    34. Last year, a similar procedure was used to enact new deficit targets for future years without an actual vote


    35. of the purposes of the 1974 Budget Act was to eliminate deficit


    36. But here is the actual history of that legislation: in the twenty years prior to the Budget Act, the budget deficit averaged just 1 percent of GDP and $30 billion in 1994 dollars


    37. years since the enactment of the 1974 Act, the average budget deficit has been $170 billion per year, and 3


    38. 8 But Rousseau found this deficit an opportunity rather than a handicap


    39. increase the federal deficit


    40. ‘To talk of redundancy in the brain is an intellectual cop-out to try to get round something you don’t understand,’ says Patrick Wall, professor of anatomy at University College, london Norman Geschwind, a neurologist at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital agrees: ‘Certainly the brain has a remarkable capacity for reassigning functions following trauma, but you can usually pick up some kind of deficit with the right tests, even after apparently full recovery

    41. Furthermore, I have a hearing deficit and normally use a TTY telephone, but again because of the unnecessary ―red suit‖ classification, I am being denied something contrary to the American Disabilities Act


    42. On the contrary, she had not stopped reproaching and repeating that we were a load, an abomination and that the expenses of our maintenance were exorbitant and that she had had to resort to bank loans to compensate the deficit


    43. trade deficit of the past decades has slowed down the overall GNP


    44. Attention Deficit Disorder are only a few


    45. Your body will be in a calorie deficit during your fast, and will therefore use up some of those additional cheat day calories


    46. “Find out where the addition or deficit is coming from and correct it


    47. Create a calorie deficit by working out double time than you eat for a better-looking belly


    48. Not everyone who has trouble concentrating had attention deficit disorder


    49. “was the huge deficit


    50. True, we do have a deficit, but it is













































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    Synonyms for "deficit"

    deficit shortage shortfall failure insufficiency inadequacy

    "deficit" definitions

    the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required


    a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning


    (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing


    an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)