deficit是什么意思？

Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.

A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHD—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (多动症).

We are suffering, he writes, from a serendipity deficit.

The dry statistics ought to inform the ongoing deficit debate, because a budget is not just a catalog of programs and taxes.

If deficit reduction aggravates these biases, more Americans may choose not to have children or to have fewer children

Peter Orszag, Obama's Budget Director, recently called the US budget deficits unsustainable and he's right.

To urge the American government to cut deficits

A simple consumption tax of, say, 5% would significantly reduce the country's huge government deficit without damaging productivity.

In the same way, a significant reduction of wasteful agricultural subsidies could also lower the deficit

What is the author's suggestion to the American public in face of the public government deficit?

When the Commerce Department reported last week that the trade deficit in June approached $50 billion, it set off a new round of economic doom saying

The children we identified as having attention difficulties were not diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (注意力缺乏多动症, ADHD), although some may have had the disorder.

You see there has been a sharp increase in Indian's balance of payment deficit.