Word: budgeted
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...idea that common knowledge eases communication and creates a national culture. The dictionary catalogues this particular information, excluding whatever Hirsch considers too specialized, generalized, regional or transient. He claims that widespread study of this body of knowledge can reverse the American educational decline. Apparently, meager teacher's salaries, budget cuts in public schooling, drugs and escalating drop-out rates are merely secondary causes of this decline. If teachers promised to pepper their lectures with proverbs, Biblical references and other culturally relevant trivia, would students really stay in school? Is this the way to achieve "high universal literacy...
While many worthwhile non-military programs languish in funding obscurity, the military programs have continued to receive more than their fair share of scarce budgetary resources. Current budget deficits exceed $150 million because of these military expenditures. In fact, Reagan has mortgaged the future prosperity of America by tripling the gross national debt. While his subordinates would have us believe that Congress is responsible for these deficits, it is the President who has always submitted unbalanced budgets--and he, therefore, who should accept the blame...
Even George Will admits that it is Reagan who has knocked the budget into "radical imbalance." This imbalance has kept interest rates at historically high levels. By spending so much money without taking it back through taxation, Reagan has kept the economy going with the only other funds available: foreign investment. The "firesale of America" is not necessarily a cause for xenophobic fits, but the nonchalance with which we have taken this path is disturbing...
Demands of athletics and academics force athletes to budget their time efficiently. Some athletes even find it easier to fit studies into their schedules during the season...
...plan calls for deep budget cuts, lower wages and sharply higher prices for food, education and health care. At the same time the shekel has been devalued by 13%. The measures, approved by the Cabinet last week, drew acrimonious opposition from the Histadrut labor federation and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. So vociferous was the army in protesting a proposed $193 million cut in the military budget that Peres ultimately agreed to trim only about $66 million...