Word: budget
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There are three great matters at issue before parliament at the next meeting: the budget, the House of Lords, and home rule for Ireland. When the first two questions are at issue, Ireland's 81 to 83 votes in parliament will have great weight...
...Secretary, was incorporated on May 3, 1907. Its purpose is to collect, analyze, and publish facts as to the administration of municipal government. Among the recent publications of the Bureau are: "Some Phases of the Work of the Department of Street Cleaning," "How Manhattan is Governed," "Making a Municipal Budget," "A Department of Municipal Audit...
...fraternity life, athletics, and electives to enable us to guess within gun shot of the amount necessary to run a board of health: whether asphalt pavement is an inch or a foot thick; whether a tenement house department is spending too little or too much money; whether a city budget should be $143,000,000 or $100,000,000; or just where economy is possible...
...Bureau of Municipal Research will be pleased to send further information to any students interested in its successful attempts to secure uniform accounting for the municipal departments, budget estimates based upon a clear statement of department needs, the proposed reorganization of the central auditing and examining of New York City, and methods of arriving at necessary charter changes
...function of Government comprehend Municipal Ownership of public utilities or confine itself to provision of increased privileges of education and recreation, to public baths, libraries, etc., it is bound to be costly and it is doubtful if the most economical administration would substantially reduce the City's annual budget as the demand for public improvements growing out of the awakened appreciation of their social value would probably absorb all the saving. It is most probable that for a long time to come public spirit will cheerfully carry the present burden of taxation if the expenditure only reaches its destination undiminished...