Word: budgeted
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That was the easy part. But when it came to figuring out how to write a budget without boosting the deficit or gutting the military, the newly united Democrats came unglued. As haggling over a 1988 budget resolution split the House and Senate Democrats, Congress came to a near standstill for almost six weeks. The Washington Post derided the "Flubbocrats," and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, stymied on other fronts, threatened to delay the August recess if his dilatory colleagues did not buckle down...
...National Health Service also has deteriorated. With a staff of 1 million, the NHS will spend $33 billion this year, but its patient waiting lists are the longest in the European Community. As many as 700,000 people are waiting for surgery, some of them have been for years. Budget cuts have closed 20 hospitals in the London area alone. The government points out, however, that spending on the health service has actually increased 2 1/2 times in the past eight years. The government has already set aside $83 million for a two- year program to treat more than...
Those advocating retreat, in its various camouflages, ought not to be debating whether our defense budget should be $303 billion or $289 billion. Thirty billion ought to be quite enough to maintain all that their foreign policy would require: a few nuclear missiles and a Coast Guard to patrol the Florida Keys...
Last year, after seeing two birds I could not identify (a great blue heron and a yellow warbler), I went out and bought A Field Guide to Birds. Since then, my social life has become a shambles, my budget goes to the sport, and my mother refuses to drive with me because I watch for birds instead of watching the road...
...think that's something, think about this," David went on. "The federal budget is a trillion dollars. The day Christ was born, if you had a trillion dollars and you spent a million dollars a day, that money would run out about the second week in November 2704. I got the figure written down somewhere...