Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower briefly eyed the total figure of preliminary budget requests for 1960, handed to him at a recent Cabinet meeting by Administration Department heads. Said he, flatly: "I don't accept this." Last week, following up his refusal, he issued a memorandum ordering all department and agency heads to stay strictly within the budget limits set by tightfisted, hard-minded Budget Director Maurice Stans. The President, who meant to work at enforcing his order, had set himself to one of the toughest jobs of his White House life: a no-holds-barred effort to present to the 86th...
...real meaning of the Administration's effort to balance the budget lies not in whether or not it actually succeeds. A balanced budget, in and of itself, is no cureall. It is, instead, the principles of government that lie behind the attempt, the refusal to accept inflation as inevitable and budgetary elephantiasis as incurable, that make the effort of deep and lasting importance...
...currency equivalent of 1,500. In Hanoi, rice is still rationed, and beggars, though forbidden by law, swarm the streets. The dong has sunk so low-7,000 to the dollar-that it may well be the worst currency in the world. Even sister Communist countries refuse to accept it, and North Viet Nam's trade with them is through barter. Last week at long last, Minister Le, the Red who could write his budgets only in red ink, got the sack...
Carrots v. Stick. At first, the nationalists appeared to accept the contracts. Frondizi in turn went out of his way to be nice to Peronistas, granting them amnesty, restoring confiscated property, allowing them to hold control of the labor movement under a plan drawn up by his Economic and ' Social Affairs Secretary, Rogelio Frigerio. A few rumbles came from within the Radical Party, notably from Frondizi's Vice President. Alejandro Gomez, but they sounded minor...
...ambitious campaign to extend the symphony to include opera performances was one of the reasons for his firing). But he denied any desire to exchange his present existence as a freelance conductor in Italy for a steady post in Chicago or anywhere else. Said he: "I wouldn't accept a permanent job if they offered it on a golden plate lined with platinum, uranium and cobalt. I want to let them sleep quietly, all those conductors in America with the Fafnir and Fasolt mentality, those dragons that worship gold...