Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congressional speaking fees would require new legislation. But if Ronald Reagan includes the raises in his last budget, they will automatically take effect unless Congress votes within 30 days to forgo them. In 1987, when Congressmen got a $12,100 pay raise, the House voted against it -- on the 31st...
...Economist Michael Boskin, 43, of Stanford University, who proposed Bush's "flexible freeze" approach to cutting the federal budget deficit, was picked to chair the Council of Economic Advisers...
...took over from their Reaganite predecessors months ago. How much good early appointments will do Bush is another question. The last transition team, Ronald Reagan's in 1980, hit the ground stumbling. Its selection of second- and third-level personnel was notoriously constipated. Yet Reagan managed to present historic budget and tax messages to Congress early in 1981. It was clearly more important to have ideas handy than people...
...rise to the tens of billions of rubles. The long restoration of the quake-stricken region will drain money from an economy already reeling from a series of setbacks. The cleanup costs for the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster swallowed 8 billion rubles, about $12.8 billion. This year the Soviet budget is already expected to run a 36 billion-ruble deficit. The government has also suffered falling revenues from declining international oil prices and from its campaign to crack down on vodka consumption. Now the country faces a sizable loss of income from Armenia, important for its manufacture of technical...
...disqualify her from the company of Carole Lombard, Jean Arthur and other down- to-earth goddesses of the golden age. But as she slims into executive shape, she grows in the role until finally she is captivating enough to be entrusted with a company merger or a big-budget film. Another Katharine (Hepburn) played another Tess (Harding) in a 1942 comedy about a trailblazing career gal. Like her, Griffith's Tess McGill is a Woman of the Year...