Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government is natural." Confessing errors has never, of course, been part of the Reagan magic. For six years, as America's debt soared past $2 trillion, the President refused to admit that George Bush was right when he said during the 1980 primaries that trying to balance the budget by cutting taxes was "voodoo economics...
...conflict generally remains a popular, unifying force. On street corners people donate money and jewelry to the war effort, while children drop coins in plastic piggy-type banks shaped like hand grenades. Diplomats estimate that the country is spending as much as $5 billion of its $7 billion annual budget on the war against Iraq. Religion also unites the people. The regular Friday prayers in Tehran can draw as many as half a million faithful. There is no hint of war, however, in Tehran's northern district. This is where bazaaris, members of Iran's business class, and other people...
Whether the legislators go after sin or something else, the proposed budget faces rough slogging at the White House. Says Administration Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "We do not agree that ((new)) taxes are necessary. Period...
...Endowment has jumped from $9 million to $400 million-plus and the budget from $9.7 million to $176.6 million...
...enforce its claim, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government is weighing the purchase of the submarines (cost: as much as $740 million each) over the next decade -- a hefty order since the annual budget for defense is only $7.4 billion...