In 1993, it is projected to have a deficit of around 12 percent.

Since 1982, Denmark wiped out its deficit of 9 percent of gross national product while raising employment by 2 percent a year.

And a separate treaty calls for huge fines on governments whose spending generates deficits of more than 3 percent of gross domestic product.

The budget is expected to be similar to last year's, with a deficit of 0.5 percent of gross domestic product.

Brazil is expected to end the year with a deficit of 8 percent, and expectations for growth are running under 2 percent.

Among them, they must balance their budgets by 2004, and they cannot run deficits of more than 3 percent of gross domestic product.

The schools were failing and the city was running yearly deficits of more than 100 percent.

The Congressional Budget Office projects a deficit of at least 4 percent for most of the next decade.

Among softwoods regionwide, a large surplus in 1977 changed to a deficit of 10 percent.

This year, the problem is vastly compounded by a projected deficit of $6 billion, or roughly 20 percent of the state's budget.