Word: budget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blank check" was approved by a 30-18 roll call vote, after a council amendment lowered the budget allowance from...
...vocal opposition, including Battat and former Treasurer Michael R. Kelsen '90, criticized the council for the short length of time it spent discussing such a large expenditure. The council spends more than four hours alloting its $40,000 grants budget, but "we spent 10 minutes discussing the [concert] issue, and we threw out $35,000," Battat said...
...prospect of inch-by-inch progress in Vienna and Geneva only underscored warnings that there will be no quick "peace dividend" for the overstretched federal budget. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's planned $180 billion in Pentagon cuts through 1995 amount to little more than deletions in the military's wish list. Nuclear-arms control saves little money because it normally results in destruction of hardware that has already been paid for and often requires expensive verification methods. Reducing conventional forces could save money, but not much: defense-budget experts from the Rand Corp. to the Congressional Budget agree that...
After holding the line fairly well during the inflationary 1970s, college tuition galloped ahead of inflation in every year of the 1980s. This was during the same decade that federal financial aid came under the Reagan budget...
...POLITICAL economy of the '80s will also be written by its victors. Democrats will de-emphasize the control of the House of Representatives over the budget process, and Republicans may pretend their presidents never singed any budgets. Perhaps if Ronald "no recollection" Reagan wins, the eighties won't be remembered...