If all the money being spent on advertising about the budget were turned over to the Treasury, the deficit would drop by more than $10 million.

The deficit dropped from the $60.6 billion in February despite a $600 million increase in petroleum imports.

After a two-year drive to diversify its financing, the museum's annual deficit dropped from $175,000 in 1985 to about $50,000 this year.

This year, the administration predicts, the deficit will drop to 2.7 percent of gross domestic product.

The deficit dropped nearly $100 billion in the 2005 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, to $319 billion.

The essential point is that if Congress adopted the committee resolution, and stuck with it, the deficit would drop substantially.

The Republican leadership had promised that the deficit would drop precipitously, only not right away.

A1 No one really knows why the deficit has dropped.

The deficit with China dropped to $4.1 billion from $4.6 billion.

The deficit, the amount by which purchases of foreign goods exceed sales abroad, dropped 26 percent, to $5.3 billion.