Word: budgeted
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Perhaps the source of this introspection is a retreat from the grave but somewhat intangible problems that are our main threat these days. Our enemies have no faces any more. Budget and trade deficits, atmospheric pollution, or AIDS, are all soluble, but they are complex and they grow upon us almost invisibly. Even our main human antagonists can no longer be named or placed. They are terrorists, whose actions strike us without warning...
...that orderly a fashion. They ought to be happy that, from their standpoint politically, everything came out beautifully. They took their lumps in the first couple of years ((with a recession)) and by the 1984 election everything was going fine. Now they're rednecked about being blamed for the budget deficit...
...most talked about subject in Washington last week was not the Bush transition, the budget deficit or the woes of Mayor Marion Barry, but one that is close to the heart of every bureaucrat -- and every American: pay raises. A salary-review board has proposed hefty pay hikes for 3,000 top Government officials, including Cabinet officers, federal judges and the 535 members of the House and Senate. The whole pay package -- including a 51% raise, to an annual $135,000, for members of Congress -- will cost $300 million in its first year. Even as the Bush Administration begins...
...women pick private industry over public service because of the siren song of much higher pay. But for many Americans "out there" who already feel that life inside the Washington Beltway is a world vastly different from their own, the prospect of such big raises right at budget-cutting time is cause for concern, derision, even anger. At their current salary of $89,500 a year, Congressmen already make more than most American wage earners...
...Government salaries be made more competitive. Accordingly, the President's pay would leap from $200,000 to $350,000 in 1993; Cabinet Secretaries' from $99,500 to $155,000; and most federal judges' from $89,500 to $135,000. President Reagan included those recommendations in the 1990-fiscal-year budget he submitted to Congress last week, thereby initiating a process by which the proposed pay hikes will become effective Feb. 8 -- unless they are rejected by both houses...