Word: across-the-board
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...curious voting ritual, a $15.8 billion authorization (only a fraction of the overall defense budget) for military hardware for 1964 was voted upon twice in the House. First, the additional funds for the RS-7O were approved, 226-179. Then an across-the-board cut of $800 million was rejected, 258-149. In the overlap, 69 Congressmen availed themselves of the opportunity to vote both for increased defense and decreased spending...
...University will institute a $500 across-the-board salary increase for associate professors next year, Dean Ford revealed at a press conference yesterday...
...increase is the first major rise in faculty salaries since July, 1960, when instructors and assistant professors were granted across-the-board raises of $500. At that time the total bill for the increases came to $500,000, necessitating a hike in tuition the following year...
Other University officials have given assurances that room and board rates will remain the same next year. A ten percent across-the-board hike in room rents went into effect this fall...
...Administration has kept the dollar details of its tax program under strict secrecy so far. But it will be a hefty package, calling for reductions totaling between $8 billion and $10 billion, with at least three points trimmed off the corporation tax rate (now 52%) and across-the-board cuts in the personal tax rates. The revenue losses will be partly offset by about $3 billion in revenue-increasing reforms, including a tightening up of capital-gains provisions and a substantial nick in the oil-depletion allowance, that favorite target of tax reformers...