Word: budget
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Students, teachers and parents flooded City Council chambers last night to fight for $568,000 that could be cut from the budget of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) for next fiscal year...
...budget cuts will also cut out seven teaching positions, SAT preparation courses and the future hiring of young teachers, he said...
...hospital is the city's third largest source of income, and increases in its deficit could lead to tax hikes, according to a budget report prepared by City Manager Robert W. Healy...
...even a real beginning? In theory, this broad-brush budget outline would comply with the Gramm-Rudman statutory requirement by reducing the deficit to $108 billion in 1990. A more realistic estimate puts the budgetary red ink at close to $130 billion. But numbers cannot convey the political timidity of the President and Congress in stubbornly holding the line against a tax hike, protecting most entitlements and refusing to make more than token trims in domestic and defense outlays. The Rose Garden agreement, in short, has spawned a Sixteen Tons budget that, to paraphrase the 1950s Tennessee Ernie Ford...
...What the budget deal represents is the clearest evidence so far of the rules of engagement between the new President and the Democratic Congress. Unlike Ronald Reagan, who blamed Capitol Hill for everything but the depletion of the ozone layer, Bush by temperament and political calculation seems determined to avoid unnecessary and melodramatic showdowns. So far, the President has behaved like a loyal member of the congressional alumni association who wants to prove that he is still one of the guys despite his fancy new digs on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bush intends to block ambitious Democratic schemes to mandate that business...