| 1. | Its excess revenue made the budget surplus possible in the first place.
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| 2. | This much larger budget surplus is often cited in the political debate.
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| 3. | UNDATED : The estimated $ 70 billion budget surplus is a mirage.
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| 4. | Smith told the Senate that the budget surplus presented a special opportunity.
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| 5. | The IMF told the government it must run a 1998 budget surplus.
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| 6. | The budget surplus should be used to pay off the national debt.
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| 7. | The best possible time would be in this moment of budget surplus.
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| 8. | Nor would currently imagined budget surpluses be sufficient to balance the books.
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| 9. | Eight of 10 Canadian provinces plan to report budget surpluses this year.
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| 10. | A government budget surplus is not expected until the 2003 fiscal year.
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