Word: across-the-board
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...optimistic picture" for otherpublic health research institutes, Blout said,explaining that both the National Institute ofHealth and the National Science Foundation willexperience across-the-board cuts this year...
Galvin called Kennedy's approach to defense budget cuts "Childish at best" in a recent interview, and said he supported a tax reform that would institute a minimum corporate tax and increase revenues without an across-the-board increase...
...deficit, which hit $212 billion in 1985 and is expected to top $220 billion this year. The new Gramm-Rudman law dictates that the deficit must shrink to $144 billion in 1987 and disappear altogether by 1991. If those targets are not met, the law calls for automatic across-the-board spending reductions that would be divided equally between defense and non-defense appropriations. To avoid that meat-ax approach, the White House is exploring all possible strategies for trimming spending, and privatization looks like one of the most promising...
...mandatory across-the-board spending cuts which would be triggered automatically, if Congress failed to meet, specified deficit reduction targets were declared unconstitutional, because they took control of the budget away from Congress...
...wanted a system of raises based entirely on merit," said Raymond, "and they wanted an across-the-board increase...