Surpluses in example sentence

Unit labor costs fell in Germany and other parts of the core (as wage growth lagged that of productivity), leading to a real depreciation and rising current-account surpluses, while the reverse occurred in the PIIGS (and Cyprus), leading to real appreciation and widening current-account deficits.

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We've never had such gargantuan surpluses before.

In many ways, this is a great success story of human civilization, of the agricultural surpluses that we set out to achieve 12,000 years ago.

Wright points out that in certain circumstances, cooperation or non-violence can benefit both parties in an interaction, such as gains in trade when two parties trade their surpluses and both come out ahead, or when two parties lay down their arms and split the so-called peace dividend that results in them not having to fight the whole time.

And with the food surpluses that these techniques produced, it was no longer necessary for everyone to farm.

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