Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right now, not much. Not jobs: while manufacturing employment has declined in the past seven years, the Reagan Administration has gutted the budget for training and employment programs, which provided crucial assistance to disadvantaged young people. The minimum wage, adjusted for inflation, is at its lowest level since 1955; in cities like New York and Los Angeles, minimum- wage service jobs will hardly pay for food and clothing, let alone an apartment and a car. Between 1979 and 1987, the number of hourly workers toiling at less than poverty-level wages ($9,464 for a family of three) jumped from...
WARREN would prefer that seniors not address the questions over investment policies when giving to Harvard. There is nothing obviously wrong with giving to the senior class gift. However, Warren himself acknowledges that all the sources for the University budget "are interconnected." The senior class gift is part of this pool of money, and a contribution to it cannot be apolitical because it funds investment in South Africa...
...plan." Implicit in this prediction is an awareness that far more overt sacrifice will required to douse the deficit than merely mobilizing an army of IRS agents to hunt down tax scofflaws. "There will be real action on the economic front," Edley says. "On the three fronts of the budget, economic development and international economics, you can expect to see a lot of hard pushing...
...nearly ten years, the Stealth bomber has been a secret in name only. Despite a hidden budget and a classification higher than top secret, military analysts and aviation buffs have pieced together a remarkably detailed picture of the first nuclear bomber designed to be almost invisible to enemy radar. Last week the Air Force acknowledged the plane's flying-wing shape for the first time. The Pentagon issued a drawing of the so-called B-2 and announced that the bomber will make its maiden flight sometime this fall in a 30-mile run between Palmdale and Edwards Air Force...
...dean of Harvard's John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government, was largely responsible for Dukakis' highly touted tax-collection efforts. If Jackson could be lured away from his job at the Bank of Boston, he could fill a top position at the Treasury or the Office of Management and Budget...