Word: budgeted
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...steer Reagan into a Central American "peace plan" partnership with House Speaker Jim Wright. He engineered the strategy of selling Robert Bork to Congress as a distinguished moderate rather than a centurion of right-wing values. And he prepared the ground for the President's reluctant compromise on a budget plan. Had such strategies proved successful, Baker's conservative critics might have forgiven him. But given the results, even some of his fans are wondering if he is the wrong man for the times...
What they do not share, however, is political style. Confrontation brought Reagan to power. As his rhetoric on Bork, the budget and Central America demonstrates, he remains most comfortable when he is taking his opponents head on. As Senate majority leader, Baker successfully yinned to Reagan's yang in crucial legislative battles. But as Baker has unhappily discovered, the White House is very different from the Senate. Says his longtime aide James Cannon: "In the Senate, they fight with boxing gloves; in the White House, they fight with guns and knives." More important, he has had difficulty blending into...
...methane escapes into the atmosphere, where it can not only destroy ozone but also act as a greenhouse gas in its own right. "Termites," says Environmental Chemist Patrick Zimmerman, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "could be responsible for as much as 50% of the total atmospheric methane budget...
While traditional exports are under pressure, the Japanese are busily trying to develop entirely new markets. The government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has offered its blessing -- and a sizable chunk of its budget -- to firms that are moving into such high-tech fields as supercomputers, biotechnology, lasers, aerospace and artificial intelligence. At MITI's Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba Science City, 37 miles northeast of | Tokyo, scientists are building exotic robots that, among other uses, have proved handy for entertaining foreign guests. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, for one, enjoyed a game of catch with the lab's artificial hand...
MITI also runs the celebrated Institute for New Generation Computer Technology, which has an annual budget of $38.8 million. Scientists there are designing a new generation of supercomputers that will allow users to give orders in English or Japanese rather than in a computer language. Such systems could be used as office secretaries, teachers' aides, automatic nursing systems or translators. Another field in which the Japanese are coming on strong is finance. Their trade surplus, combined with a high personal-savings rate, has provided the Japanese with a huge pool of cash to spread around the world. That has given...