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Do you want to load onto an innocent bride an' groom the necessity of meeting a deficit of a couple of hundred dollars every week?
The public deficit increased continually, until it finally amounted to nearly two hundred millions in a single year.
Added to these discords, the finances were found to be in a most disordered state, and the annual deficit was fifty or sixty millions.
There had been an annual deficit, and the distress of both the agricultural and manufacturing classes was alarming.
The interest he pays is a disordered state of his accounts, and permanent and increasing deficits, which he can never make good.
He refused to take advantage of the bankruptcy law, and sat down with his pen to make good the deficit.
In a word, an examination was made into the state of the treasury of the island, and a large deficit found.
Allan had admitted that he had known of the deficit for fifteen months, and yet he had not, till he was himself in trouble, thought of making it known to the proper authorities.
The chest, however, was examined, and the deficit found far greater yet than had been reported.
I therefore recommend that authority be given to borrow whatever sum may be necessary to cover that deficit.
The cause of these large deficits is mainly attributable to the increased expense of transporting the mails.
The great obstacle to the dialogue soon becomes, however, a deficit of subjects rather than of words.
The world offered a market, though not at high prices, for a greater volume of the crops than the plantation slaves could furnish; the farmers supplied the deficit.
At such a stage the employment of slaves could only be continued at a steady deficit, to relieve themselves from which the masters must resort to a general emancipation.
If there was a deficit he made it up out of his own pocket, and when the revenues expanded he paid himself back.
We have supposed its purpose to be, firstly, to meet a deficit in a Budget, and secondly, to pay for naval expansion.
Covering a deficit by loan is bad finance in any case, but especially so when the loan is raised abroad.
After that it fell to the manager of the paper either to get contributions to meet the deficit each year or to borrow.
In fact, when he had finished with Parting and was ready to begin on Sweet Sorrow, he had not only exhausted the subject, but left considerable of a deficit in it.
"Yes, of course, but ... well, if there is a deficit, I can always raise my own subscription to cover it."
He had faintly hoped that the deficit would not exceed ten pounds, or twelve; he had been prepared for a deficit of twenty-five, or even thirty.
Sometimes a lucky stroke on the market or an unexpected fee evens things up or sets me a little ahead; but usually January first sees me selling a few bonds to meet an annual deficit.
Liszt helped make up the deficit and came to Bonn to organize a Festival in honor of the event.
To make good this deficit, the buildings are furnished with supplementary books in sets sufficiently large to supply entire classes.
He has already begun to mortgage his property and to cut down the timber, and he always finds a deficit at the end of the year.
I proposed to advance him the deficit, but he absolutely refused, because he preferred to meet his uncle's just anger rather than deceive him.
After his death his estate paid nine years' simple interest on his deficit, and ten years thereafter, the principal was paid.
Persistent budget deficits, the flight of capital, and deterioration of transport and other infrastructure continue to hold back economic progress.
It is a commanding duty to keep the appropriations within the receipts of the Government, and thus avoid a deficit.
I knew that I could not keep the game up much longer, for the annual accounting would disclose the deficit.
When it died there was a considerable deficit, together with a failure on the part of the executive committee to account for a pretty liberal cash balance.
Unless this is done there will be a deficit even after the War, and the Debt will have to be increased to meet it.
Heavier taxation had to be imposed, but even then the charges for the debt made it almost impossible to avoid an annual deficit in the budget.
If the profits should exceed the expenses, the excess should belong to his Majesty; if the costs should amount to more than the profits, the trustee must supply the deficit from his own purse.
I'm treasurer of a lot of things women run, and I can see a deficit through a brick wall as quick as any man on earth.
It represents nothing, thus far, except what it has always represented, a hand-to-mouth policy and a financial deficit.
Nobody minded paying the deficit, but through local red tape this seeming trifle sometimes caused two or even three weeks' delay in the delivery of important letters.
Hailey, who had only recently succeeded to the financial department, had to admit that the deficit could only be met by increased taxation.
While the romance of a failure for hundreds of thousands of dollars is more appealing than a failure for a small sum, the greater the deficit the greater the responsibility.
Then, if on the reception of their entire product, they find they have not given as much as the claims of the destitute demand, they can easily make up the deficit.
Higher budget deficits have been relied on to pay for additional benefits and average rate reductions for higher incomes.
In this case, without a deficit, the progression factor applies to expenditure too, which may be taken to mean, effectively, that taxes are indexed such that tax revenue follows expenditure.
Note that there is no need for a government deficit since the analysis on the dynamic marginal rate shows that progressive taxes need not be a drawback for the richer.
The Court will focus on the statement on the deficit and the national debt, since all errors accumulate in those figures - though it can call any number or piece of economic information into question.
Other economic indicators in the red were budget deficits, high interest rates, and the crowding out of private investments.
To pay the deficit, dresses and scenery had to be sold; and for a time, at any rate, it was clear the theater could not open again.
In 1996, the substantial trade deficit was partially offset by increased earnings from tourism.
The deficit produced, and a heavy tax to supply it, will, I trust, bring both to their sober senses.
The warrior Pharaohs had always had at their disposal the spoils obtained from foreign nations to make up the deficit which their constant gifts to the temples were making in the treasury.
Similar results were achieved by others by just stimulating merchants to import grain into deficit areas.
He complained bitterly of the heavy pressure of taxation, saying that Government ought to manage things more economically, for that every year now there was a deficit.
With these resources the latter went out on the road and sold the patent medicine for enough to make up the deficit.
The result was that at the end of the first year he went to the owner with a report of a deficit of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for the twelve months just ended.
Calculate the volume required by this standard in any case, and find the excess or deficit, as the case may be.
The money deficit and other losses I could, no doubt, make good, but who could restore you your good name?
The deficit of fifty thousand grew under the microscope of investigation to sixty thousand, eventually to seventy-five thousand.
If for any reason I fell short of these proposed distances, I had two methods in reserve for making up the deficit.
If surplus and deficit had the same common denominator, say "K." or "G.S." they would wipe themselves out to the instant simplification of the problem.
His figures, which disagreed with the money in the desk, revealed the deficit, and showed that the abstraction had been made after the balance had been added up.
When the two first seriously faced the budget question, they found that they had started their sentimental partnership with a combined deficit of over four hundred dollars.
He had become aware that the expenditure of the last year had exceeded the income, and that the income of the next year gave no promise of balancing the existing deficit of two thousand dollars.
Sometimes they had a few coppers over and above the daily expenses, sometimes they fell below that sum and had to make up the deficit on the morrow.
He accepted, and I judge that there is going to be a deficit in the Dooley treasury as a result.
However small the deficit, his labors were not complete till he could tear the whole page out.
Where he had obtained the money to meet the deficit the manager did not know, but he believed someone must have come forward to assist him.
The trade deficit has been growing, mostly as a result of low export prices for sugar and bananas and could increase further if a pre-election boost in government spending leads to a rise in imports.
Furthermore, substantial government deficits have undermined efforts to maintain the quality of social services.
A growing trade deficit, continuing problems with corruption, and political uncertainties cloud the short-term economic picture.
Cuts mainly affect the civil service and Austria's generous social system, the two major causes of the government deficit.
For with the loss of his branch manager and his two best brokers, there was a deficit in his premium returns which he could not overcome.
He came toward her out of the gloom, holding the ring before him, as if with the light of that, and the flash of his smile, he was anxious immediately to cover his deficit.
The sale wiped out the deficit and made an even break on the venture, the worst to be feared.
"I would do it with pleasure, if there were any such," said Franklin; but the question was still of a deficit, not of a surplus.
If there is a deficit any year, he should order it to be made up from the outside, and whatever is above the needs of the farm sold.
The government presents were never rich enough, and the unlucky consul had to make up the deficit out of his own pocket.
When the semi-annual interest became due, with the most energetic effort Mark Nelson had got together but thirty-six dollars towards it, leaving a deficit of thirty dollars.
He knew how hard it would be to extract from it the means of repairing a deficit in his own finances.
It is now thought probable that a local miner may have dropped his week's wages whilst entering his car and that his secretary has not yet called his attention to the deficit.
This was the largest deficit at the end of any previous month, and was a big one with which to commence the improvement work of our last year.
Its principal representative is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or king's treasurer; and "Deficit of revenue" is his constant announcement, to the feudal lords, who exercise local government.
King generously supplied the deficit, and the six trooped into the drug store, and each selected a favorite flavor.
The business was carried on by Hessians who worked both ends against the middle, and let the estate foot the deficits.
With only a month in which to make up a deficit of four hundred thousand dollars, we did not abandon hope.
Had, indeed, all his excesses of payment been gathered into one fund, that fund would have covered his deficits ten times over.
The balance left in the lawyer's hands would not be nearly enough to cover a certain deficit which in justice he felt himself bound to make up.
Then he went home to supper, determined to return and locate the deficit, if he didn't get a wink of sleep until morning.
He had plundered the firm of a large sum of money, and it looked now as though he intended to enlarge his operations in this direction, rather than make good the deficit.
It ran deep in the red, but Porter didn't mind; Porter Research Associates was a hobby, not a business, and running at a deficit saved him plenty in taxes.
Rice is the food of the native people, but the crop is insufficient, and the deficit must be imported.
The program sought to gradually reduce the government's budget deficit over the next several years and implement badly needed structural reforms in the economy.
This percentage of dividend would be large enough but for such possibilities as these, which may soon reduce it to a deficit and a loss.
He could have all the time he needed to pay back the deficit, and more time than he needed.
As it constantly showed a deficit, its friends had become discouraged in supporting it, and the subscriptions on which it lived had been falling off.
I hope and believe, in fact it must be, that this is the last time we are going to meet with a deficit.
At nearly every convention a deficit is reported; it ought to be the other way, and it can be.
The matter of deficit financing seems to be good for the Government, but I don't think it is any good for the society.
Fill up this deficit: at once you suppress space and time, that is to say, the endlessly renewed oscillations around a stable equilibrium always aimed at, never reached.
The remainder of the deficit of this undertaking he was able to make up from his earliest earnings in America.
And so, tomorrow's delivery here at the house will add a tiny fraction to the already increasing postal deficit.
In 1876, however, the long series of surpluses ceased, and they have since been replaced by deficits almost as continuous.