Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which, he later concluded, would have netted him $1,200 over the period of his adventures) and went looking for trouble. A financial consultant offered to relieve him of all anxiety, and of a fee of 2% to 4% of his assets, by drawing up a sensible budget. This was not the sort of trouble Rothchild had in mind. He studied hard, listened carefully to a succession of brokers and analysts, and lost steadily. His only good advice came from an astrological marketeer who explained that "electrically charged investors turn positive or negative in sympathy with the positive or negative...
...only avoids details on investments but also leaves out entire sectors of finance. The most notable omission is the independent, secretive and scandal-tainted "Vatican bank," which holds sizable assets on behalf of ecclesiastical organizations in many nations. The Vatican's world-missionary agency also operates on a separate budget...
...Bernini, the Vatican does not list their book value, considering them to be held in trust for all humanity. In short, the church must look to the generosity of the faithful rather than the sale of the Pieta or Raphael's frescoes, if it is to balance its budget...
...Sandwich King is a friendly, family- owned eatery where folks slurp coffee and talk about bass fishing, layoffs at the local textile mills and, once in a while, politics. Most of the whites at the cafe describe themselves as evangelical Christians who support a strong military and a balanced budget. A real Reaganite bunch? Think again. "I don't always like the Democrats who run for President," says Bill Morland, 36, a burly telephone lineman, "but it was pretty clear to me from the get-go that Ronald Reagan was out to make the rich folks richer...
...seen attendance jump by 23.3% between 1979 and 1985. Adherents now number 2.1 million in the U.S., 16.4 million worldwide. Swaggart has been the group's most electrifying TV preacher and road revivalist, and his ministry has expanded lavishly overseas, providing $10.4 million of the denomination's 1987 mission budget...