Word: budget
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DURING his 18 years in the Senate, Weicker established himself as a maverick who challenged his party's leadership and its increasingly conservative slant. Weicker fought the Reagan Administration over its budget priorities and took on the GOP right wing on such issues as civil rights, abortion, school prayer and busing...
...released guide to 116 of the toughest jobs in the capital. Some examples: a former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs admits that sometimes "stamina was more important than intelligence" in keeping pace with the travel and social demands of his post. At the Office of Management and Budget, the challenge is "not to cave" in to demands for money. Says a former OMB associate director: "A lot of people are not willing to be unpopular...
...system, the project of Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, would provide a department with an annual budget that is expected to cover the salaries of all junior and senior professors for the year. Each department is allocated a "steady-state" number of positions--computed by adding up the number of both junior and senior posts that departments had under the old system--that it is allowed to fill and is then given leeway to decide the exact balance between junior and senior faculty...
Dukakis "has to make major decisions about staff, the budget and how he fulfills his commitment to universal health insurance," said Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Murphy...
...think he's probably very anxious to dive into some real governing," Senator John Carey said, adding that the state budget should be Dukakis' top priority...