Our surplus from foreign business transactions has in recent years fallen substantially short of the expenditures we make abroad to maintain our military establishments overseas, to finance private investment, and to provide assistance to the less developed nations.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

For example, the level of improvement noted in a recent experiment with a short course of immediate treatment for parent-child relationship problems compared favorably with the results reported by typical child guidance clinics where the hours spent in purely diagnostic study may equal or exceed the number of hours devoted to actual treatment interviews in the experimental project.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Climate change may occur over long and short timescales from a variety of factors ; recent warming is discussed in global warming.

The most recent, the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, which occurred approximately 65. 5 million years ago ( Ma ), was a large-scale mass extinction of animal and plant species in a geologically short period of time.

Includes a short history of the Grand Guignol genre and photographs of recent productions

Nevertheless, until comparatively recent years, a short stroll up the Old Finglas Road brought you rapidly into open countryside.

On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.

In recent years the rivalry with Minnesota has become more prominent, with the Twins ' consistent standings atop the division, as well as the relatively short drive between the two clubs in which many fans from Minnesota make the trip and heavily populate Royals home games versus the Twins.

IT contractors are selected for their relevant experience, supported by recent references, and are usually taken on for short periods ( up to 6 months at a time, with renewals if competent ).

" In a similar fashion to Jonze's recent work with Arcade Fire, he has directed both " short and epic-length videos " to partner with the single.

In its early decades, the magazine sometimes published two or even three short stories a week, but in recent years the pace has remained steady at one story per issue.

During the first Peel series, each episode would end with a short, comedic scene of the duo leaving the scene of their most recent adventure in some unusual vehicle.

Regular plenary sessions of the General Assembly in recent years have initially been scheduled to be held over the course of just three months, however additional work loads have extended these sessions to last on through just short of the next session.

Singer worked either as an executive producer or producer on eight of Herzog ’ s documentaries starting with “ Lessons of Darkness ” in 1991, “ The Wild Blue Yonder ” – won the International Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival, 2006 and including two of the most recent “ La Boheme, short ”, 2009, and “ Into the Abyss ”/” Death Row ”, 2011.

The most recent short film A Matter of Loaf and Death was likewise nominated in 2010, but lost to Logorama.

In the most recent short he is a baker.

An ' Iced capp ' or ' Icecap ', short for ' Iced Cappuccino ', has in recent years become a very widespread summer beverage in Canada.

In recent years, an unofficial short version of the anthem is sung during Belgian National Day on July 21 yearly, combining the words of the anthem in all three of Belgium's official languages, similar to the bilingual version of O Canada.

In recent years, a controversy has developed between supporters of short and long format three-day events.

However, this claim has not held true in several recent studies that compared injuries sustained in classic and in short format competitions over equivalent courses.

A 2009 book Pioneers of Industrial Organization traces the development of the field from Adam Smith to recent times and includes dozens of short biographies of major figures in Europe and North America who contributed to the growth and development of the discipline.

It also had a short lived ( 7 episode ) online television show, prior to the recent surge in videocasting and podcasting, called Seattle Wireless TV.

In recent years, some schools have eliminated skirts and kilts, in favour of dress pants for girls, or replaced skirts with culottes or a garment called a skort which is a skirt that has an attached short on the inside for modesty.

-- A recent news story reported that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin delayed 103 airplane passengers 10 minutes in London while they finished their drinks.

( A story was later circulated that, to prevent further escapes, Henry had Robert's eyes burnt out: this is not accepted by Henry's recent biographer, Judith Green.

" " Carey's Iceman story in Manifest Destiny takes place before the recent " Uncanny X-Men " arc that saw Iceman arrive in San Francisco, and follows Iceman as he travels west on a cross-country trip to the X-Men's new home.

The Arab tribes, of the time, may have begun to exalt Muhammad above Jonah because of the recent revelation Muhammad received, which recounted the story of Jonah's fleeing from his mission.

The story " Talboys " and Jill Paton Walsh's recent continuations Thrones, Dominations and A Presumption of Death continue this into the early 1940s, while Paton Walsh's third continuation The Attenbury Emeralds is set in the postwar era.

" The most recent academic work, Punch & Judy: History, Tradition and Meaning by Robert Leach ( 1985 ), makes it clear that " the story is a conceptual entity, not a set text: the means of telling it, therefore, are always variable.

There have been recent attempts to label the story as a hoax by the late Horace N. Minnis, of the Chattanooga Times.

According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.

Another more recent story involving travel to the future is Louis-Sébastien Mercier's L ' An 2440, rêve s ' il en fût jamais (" The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Were One "), a utopian novel in which the main character is transported to the year 2440.

More recent legends tend to reflect modern circumstances, like the story of people ambushed, anesthetized, and waking up minus one kidney, which was surgically removed for transplantation ( a story which folklorists refer to as " The Kidney Heist ").

The story re-surfaced several times over the next few years, living on until recent times.

A recent biography of Vera Atkins, the intelligence officer for the French section of SOE, notes that that there was a great deal of confusion about what happened to Szabo-the story was revised four times-and states that the Sten gun incident " was probably a fabrication ".

The website PakistanBodyCount. Org ( by Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, a Fulbright Scholar at the Florida Institute of Technology ) shows 1065 civilian deaths between June 2004 to January 30, 2010 and tallying 103 drone strikes carried out by the U. S. With the increase of drone strikes, according to the most recent story in The International News, January 2010 proved to be a deadly month in Pakistan with 123 innocent civilians killed.

Decades later, Clarke was in the process of preparing a new edition of the book after recent events had dated the story.

Her recent biographers, however, question the veracity of this story.

In a recent book-length study, keyboardist and Bach scholar Peter Williams contends that the Forkel story is entirely spurious.

Yet recent research by the scholar Renqui Yu led him to conclude that " no evidence can be found in available historical records to support the story that Li Hung Chang ate chop suey in the United States.

Maj. Gen. Marc A. Cisneros, deputy commander of the Southern Command at the time of the invasion, said in a recent interview " The story you've got from somebody that these guys were a vigilante group trying to provoke an incident — that is absolutely false ".

A recent book provides an update on this story.

An example is a recent statement in an official church publication: " Share the story of Annual Conference with someone else as a way to ' extend Jesus ' table ,' even inviting those people into the fellowship of the Church of the Brethren.

The series featured notable journalists attempting to guess the recent or old news story with which a hidden guest challenger was linked by asking him or her questions, in much the same manner as the American game shows, What's My Line?

Edited by Bud Molin, the film is a collage film incorporating black-and-white movie clips from 18 different films, combined with more recent footage of Martin and other actors similarly shot in black-and-white, with the result that the original dialogue and acting of the historic films have now become part of a completely different ( and ridiculous ) story.