Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice President George Bush brandished a newspaper headline calling the Massachusetts budget "a mess" yesterday, as he returned to the offense in the race for the White House. Democratic nominee and underdog Michael S. Dukakis said his Republican rival was "slipping and we're surging" into the homestretch...
...made-for-television gesture, he held aloft a copy of Wednesday's Boston Herald, with a front-page headline description of the Massachusetts budget situation: "What a Mess." He accused Dukakis of "borrowing like mad" and "kiting checks...
During the past several years, Massachusetts revenue caps for hospitals--which put a ceiling on the amount a hospital can increase its budget in a year--have forced hospitals to juggle their budgets, often cutting important programs. Because of the stringent state caps, many local hospitals have done away with their "I.V. teams" or technicians responsible for putting needles and catheters into veins. Without I.V. teams, patients must let interns fresh out of medical school take their chances at hitting a vein...
...change in grant-giving, which would allow the council to fund more public service activities, was made possible last spring when the council increased its annual budget to $120,000, after the Faculty doubled its term bill charge to $20. The portion of the budget alloted for grants to student groups has increased from $17,500 per semester in past years to $40,000 this term...
...past, any sizeable grant to a publicservice group like PBH would have been unlikelybecause of a more limitted council budget and thefinance committee's strict interpretation of arule that groups receiving money provide a serviceof direct benefit to the Harvard community...