Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.
China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.
There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
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After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.
In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.
I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.
How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?
Nick, Surplus Store Owner: [looking at the knife he has just been stabbed with] This isn't one of mine.
Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.
