Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican National Committee, which has been dizzyingly prosperous in the Reagan era, has suddenly fallen on leaner times. Faced with a $3 million shortfall in its $38 million annual budget, the committee last week laid off 40 of its 275 employees. Donations are down, say G.O.P. fund raisers, as a result of the Iran-contra scandal, disappointment with the Republican loss of the Senate last fall, and too many aspiring presidential candidates trolling for money from the same supporters...
...Democratic Party standards, the Republicans are hardly bereft. The Democratic National Committee's budget for this year and next is only $21 million...
...spent $30,000 for baby-sitters, but even to a man with such a budget, $412,000 is not peanuts. That is the amount of money unaccounted for in a court report on the finances of Dennis Levine, the former Wall Street investment banker who pleaded guilty to an insider-trading scheme that netted him $12.6 million in illegal profits...
Sensitive to public alarm, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole has sped up programs to bolster the FAA's staff and equipment. She has proposed a fiscal 1988 budget supplement of $51.5 million to hire 955 more air-traffic personnel, including 580 more controllers. That would bring the total ranks of controllers to 15,805. Meanwhile, the FAA is in the midst of a ten-year, $16 billion project to upgrade air-traffic computers, radar and other systems so that controllers will be able to handle swarms of planes with far greater precision...
American broadcasters tend to consider British TV news programs professionally put together but low budget, low key and kind of boring. Instead of anchormen, there are news readers who do not thrust their personalities at the viewer. Only a few interviewers with outsize gall, like Sir Robin Day of the BBC with his signature polka-dot bow ties, are true celebrities (our unknighted Sir Ted Koppels and Sir Tom Brokaws must be content with honorary college degrees...