Japan, unlike other big economies, is in the enviable position of having a budget surplus.

不像其他经济大国，日本有着令人羡慕的预算盈余。

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The budget, which was in surplus little more than a decade ago, now has a deficit of Greek-style proportions.

现在的预算，在十年以前还会有点剩余，现在却有和希腊一样比例的赤字。

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Sweden, like the other Nordic countries, is likely to run a sizeable budget surplus in 2008.

瑞典和其他北欧国家一样，很可能在2008年实现可观的预算盈余。

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In early October the Treasury released a pre-election economic and fiscal update indicating that after 14 years in surplus the budget balance was set to slip into deficit.

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So Mr Clinton, who claims to want a budget surplus in order to help Social Security, is actually using the Social Security surplus in order to help his budget look fine.

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It highlighted the growth in the number of surplus places in schools, overspending on the special needs budget and the rising numbers of exclusions in the island's secondary schools.

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