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Italy even has a surplus in its primary budget, which excludes debt interest payments.

The primary budget balance equals the government budget balance before interest payments.

Mrs. Lowey's primary budget was $500,000 and she is spending $750,000 in the general election.

A hefty chunk of Mr. Lauder's primary budget paid for harsh television commercials attacking his opponent.

They were both likely to maintain a primary budget surplus to make public debt payments and reduce the ratio of debt to GDP.

His government achieved a satisfactory primary budget surplus in the first two years, as required by the IMF agreement, exceeding the target for the third year.

Greek finance minister Yannis Stournaras, is expecting a primary budget surplus, which excludes debt interest payments, for 2013,.

It has also locked horns with fund negotiators, who would like to see the country run a primary budget surplus of 3.5 percent of gross domestic product or more.

RFI operates under the auspices and primary budget of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.

What economists call the Government's "primary budget surplus" - the surplus of revenues over current expenditures - must grow fast enough to keep pace with mounting annual interest payments.

Brazil posted a primary budget surplus of 6.61 billion reais ($2.24 billion) in July, up from 4.32 billion reais a year earlier, the central bank said.

In 1998, Mr. Buiter estimates, interest obligations on the debt will exceed the primary budget surplus by about $40 billion - a mere half a percent of national output.

The treaty established that any country acceding to the Euro area should keep his government primary budget deficit below the line of three percent, and the first assessment was established for 1997.

The I.M.F. goal corresponds to a 2.5 percent to 3 percent surplus in Brazil's primary budget account, which covers Government expenses but excludes interest payments on debt.

The primary budget surplus, which does not count interest payments, was 13.6 billion reais for the first 6 months of 1999, within a target agreed upon with the International Monetary Fund.

A fiscal adjustment is a reduction in the government primary budget deficit, and it can result from a reduction in government expenditures, an increase in tax revenues, or both simultaneously.

Brazil posted a record primary budget surplus of 12.3 billion reais ($4.9 billion) in March, the highest monthly figure since the government started tracking the data in 1991, the central bank said.

Mr. Douglas predicted that Judge Friedman would spend about $500,000, and Jerry Skurnik, a consultant for Justice Silbermann, said they planned a $400,000 primary budget.

That essentially obliges them to support the current government's austerity program and keep country's primary budget surplus - the surplus before including external loan repayments - at 3.75 percent of its gross domestic product.

Although the economy grew by more than 8 percent last year, Mr. Kirchner is refusing to increase the current 3 percent primary budget surplus, which would, theoretically at least, give the government more cash to pay back creditors.

Brazil posted a primary budget surplus of 5.8 billion reais ($1.87 billion) in May, putting the country on track to meet fiscal targets of a $14 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

Brazil posted a primary budget surplus of 7.9 billion reais ($2.6 billion) in June, easily beating fiscal targets for the first half of the year stipulated in a $14 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund, the central bank said.

She and Abedin's mother have gathered the primary budget of the first project of the group that included buying colored pencils, drawing papers, world globes and other drawing stuff and distributed them among Afghani children to make some drawings with the subject of peace.

Mr. Kirchner agreed to aim next year for a primary budget surplus of 3 percent of gross domestic product - far lower than the targets of other I.M.F.-assisted countries in the region - but left the targets for 2005 and 2006 open to negotiation.