Word: budgeted
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Zeckhauser's accomplishments are undisputed. Beginning in 1979, she built up HRE from a disorganized collection of apartments worth about $1 million into the city's largest landlord with a budget of $40 million...
Conversely, the Administration's appropriations for atomic defense have almost doubled in the same time. In 1981 the budget was $3.6 billion, in 1987 it was $7.6 billion. Reagan has asked Congress to appro- priate $8.2 billion...
...Like his three predecessors, Salinas is a technocrat and has never held an elected post, although he is the first economist ever to serve in a job occupied primarily by lawyers. Still, Salinas brings ample experience to the presidency, which carries a six-year term. As the Minister of Budget and Planning since 1982, Salinas is both credited and cursed for President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's austerity program. Salinas' task will be to guide Mexico's economy from the sleepy epoch of the sombrero into the dynamic age of the superconductor. At the same time, he faces mounting...
...level bureaucratic jobs, then headed to Harvard in 1973, where he earned two master's degrees and a doctorate in political economy and government. Returning in 1978 to Mexico City, where he now lives with his wife and three children, Salinas worked for De la Madrid, then Minister of Budget and Planning, and assumed that post when his mentor became President...
...showdown could invigorate, at least temporarily, a presidency that has recently been creeping along like a paraplegic duck. The conciliatory approach Reagan used in pushing Bork was similar to the strategy he pursued with his ambivalent support for the Central American peace plan and his reluctant compromise on the budget. In the process, he has come close to losing on three of his most important remaining goals: securing his social agenda by shifting the Supreme Court to the right, saving the contras and preventing a tax increase or cuts in defense spending. The White House stands to gain only...