Its current account, measuring financial transactions and services as well as trade, has swung from a deficit to a sizable surplus.

The fiscal conservatism of Labor's first three years produced a sizable surplus that the government now plans to spend on better education, transportation and policing.

Such changes enabled the state to produce a sizable surplus this year, with another likely next year.

Japanese national and local government combined is running a sizable surplus.

Now if we balance the budget for next year, it is projected that we'll then have a sizable surplus in the years that immediately follow.

Swaziland's public finances deteriorated in the late 1990s following sizable surpluses a decade earlier.

For the last two years, the state has ended its fiscal year with sizable surpluses, and is expected to do the same in 1998.

Russia is in its fifth year of economic growth, with a national budget cushioned by a sizable surplus.

Blue Cross executives say the good news should continue at least long enough to make 1992 the fourth year in a row with a sizable surplus.

This already has resulted in a sizable surplus that sits in an escrow account.