Word: budgeted
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...earn some $183 million annually. In Tulsa, Oral Roberts, 69, a member of the United Methodist Church but Pentecostal in style, oversees daily and weekly television shows and presides over a $500 million complex, including the 4,650-student Oral Roberts University and the City of Faith Hospital. Annual budget: some $120 million. Robert Schuller, 60, who was ordained by the Reformed Church in America, broadcasts his syndicated weekly Hour of Power shows from the $20 million Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., and takes in some $42 million annually...
...declarations by some of his key economic advisers, point to more far-reaching structural changes. Economist Abel Aganbegyan, for example, has advocated letting prices rise to market levels. At present, government subsidies on such items as food, clothing and shelter run to $114 billion a year, straining the government budget and encouraging shortages and inefficiency. Aganbegyan has also raised the possibility of closing "thousands" of unprofitable enterprises...
...with our Constitution. A modern-day convention would only create chaos and destroy the subtleties, language and spirit of the 1787 document. If our elected representatives cannot resolve through legislative action issues now facing us such as the deficit, a balanced budget and government waste, then how could they possibly make a success of a constitutional convention...
...cheap. He offers the traditional vision of "economic opportunity" and "full employment." The difference is that Dukakis insists that these goals can be achieved largely by rechanneling existing federal resources. As a candidate, he resists putting price tags on programs: "I don't think you have to prepare a budget, for God's sake." But even Dukakis' showcase proposal -- a regional-development fund that he mentions in almost every speech -- would cost just $500 million a year, about what the U.S. spends on aid to Pakistan. As he talks eagerly about harnessing the "enormous capacity at the state and local...
...tack seems motivated mainly by a realization that military competition and Third World adventurism are expensive and not all that rewarding. Keeping Cuba afloat costs the Soviets more than $4 billion a year; the Afghanistan occupation requires the deployment of close to 120,000 troops; the military budget consumes, according to some estimates, about 14% of total government spending. Gorbachev's domestic objectives will demand a massive reallocation of resources. As he told Britain's Margaret Thatcher in March, "We need a lasting peace to concentrate on the development of our society and to proceed to improve the life...