"Any number of municipalities have used surplus earnings to cover budget items."

In 1980, city officials noticed that the pension fund was producing what came to be known as "surplus earnings."

These 'surplus earnings' are then increased in line with national average earnings until the individual reaches state pension age.

San Diego authorities continued to rely on the pension fund's "surplus earnings" until 1996.

This amount is referred to as 'surplus earnings'.

He followed his father's practice of investing his surplus earnings in properties suitable for commercial purposes.

F.M.O's income derives from the commission on sales and surplus earnings.

Families with several workers and few or no dependents had substantial surplus earnings, which they saved or used to buy nonessential goods.

McDonagh now has enough money to pay off his debts to his bookie and uses his surplus earnings to place a new bet.

Governor Cowper recently suggested setting aside $700 million in surplus earnings over the next two years as an endowment for public education, which has suffered from the decline in oil revenue.

Similar to an LLC, cooperatives that are incorporated normally are not taxed on surplus earnings, also known as patronage dividends, that are refunded to members.

All the profits earned by their work, with which they might improve their situation, give themselves some leisure and, consequently, education, all surplus earnings are taken from them by the capitalists.

Fred's hero status in the popular media has allowed him to earn enough money to pay for school, and donate his surplus earnings to the struggling Moon colony, which he hopes someday to join.

He used surplus earnings from his plumbing trade to subsidize his activities, and was reputed to charge exorbitantly for his services in order to earn enough money to donate to the fallāḥīn.

When prices of the country's two main exports, coffee and cocoa, soared to record highs in the 1960's and early 70's, the Ivory Coast used its surplus earnings to provide efficient ports, good roads, power and communications.

At least some members of the Administration understand that Japan's ballooning surplus earnings abroad, roughly 3 percent of national income, have little to do with import barriers and virtually everything to do with the Japanese recession.

Singapore Pools' stated aim is to provide a legal avenue befor betting in Singapore to counter illegal betting syndicates, and to devote surplus earnings towards worthy causes that serve the needs of the community.

Surplus earnings from the parade over the years were donated to one of Duffy's favorite causes, Project Children, an organization that brings children from Northern Ireland to Central New York for six weeks.

Because the track's attendance and betting revenue have slumped in the last two years, the authority has asked the state to return about $60 million in surplus earnings that it has given to the state in the last 10 years.

When prices of the country's main exports, coffee and cocoa, soared to record highs, the Ivory Coast used its surplus earnings to build the largest road network, the most reliable telephone system and the most skilled and educated work force in West Africa.

A graduate tax would work much the same way (i.e. a threshold earnings level and then incremental payments of surplus earnings), unless it increased steeply and in perpetuity, say graduate bankers paying an additional 10% tax on their top rate, which is probably what you have in mind.

Even though companies are not allowed to take surplus earnings out of their pension funds, a company that assumes its fund will post big investment returns can report significantly higher earnings, or narrow its losses, because the assumption artificially reduces the reported cost of providing benefits, which bolsters the bottom line.

Elected city officials and their constituents cheered on the pension system's foray into the stock market, and during the good years, diverted the system's "surplus earnings" to pay for popular city initiatives, such as the ballpark, the convention center expansion, and for the cost of hosting the 1996 Republican national convention.