Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chastened by a 1980 prison riot that left 33 convicts dead, New Mexico built a new maximum-security facility near Santa Fe with a surveillance system that was supposedly state of the art. But a snafu in the electric eyes plus a tight budget that cut out the nighttime roof guard allowed the Independence Day escape of two killers and five other felons...
Most adept footwork. Dukakis' response to a smart-alecky Buckley question about how much of Massachusetts' budget goes for defense: "None. But a lot of it goes into social services and education and economic development. And that's why today Massachusetts has the lowest unemployment rate of any industrial state...
Reagan's address on economic rights was mostly a burnishing of the ideas he has carried throughout his political life. Specifically, he will continue his assault on Big Government, high taxes, regulation. He still wants an amendment to the Constitution mandating a balanced federal budget and a law providing line-item veto power for the President. He would require Congress to muster more than a mere majority to impose tax increases. "Taxation beyond a certain level becomes servitude," Reagan declared. He brandished once again the "truth in spending" scheme that would compel Congress to assign a cost...
...naysayers, so the impression was that most of the public feed-back was strongly negative." The board, though legally still on the books, lasted just four years. In 1982 the Office of Metric Programs was created to move the responsibilities of the metric board to the Department of Commerce. Budget and staffing were cut, from $3 million to $300,000 and subsequently reduced even further...
After a lively period of experimentation when MTV was young, record companies have grown more cautious. Some, like CBS Records, have cut back on the number of videos they produce. Others have put a tighter rein on budgets, which average between $50,000 and $100,000 a clip. For all their artistic aspirations, rock videos are intended mainly as promotional tools; by that measure, a low-budget clip of the band in concert may do the job just as well as a more elaborate "concept" video. Says Video Director Wayne Isham: "What's good these days is what sells product...