Word: budgeted
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...patients who / have no insurance. Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of California shares the concern: "I don't think it's right to let someone die because they don't have private insurance or the financial resources to pay for the drug." Waxman is seeking $60 million in the 1988 budget, and $30 million this year, to help purchase drugs for indigent AIDS victims. If approved, these funds could help patients like Archie Harrison, 32, of New York City, who is caught in a vexing Catch-22. Harrison took part in a Retrovir trial and is now well enough to resume...
...that the "malpractices" come to a halt. Dressed in a gray Mao suit, Wang chided officials for using public funds for "lavish dinner parties and gifts" and for "blindly pursuing the modernization of office facilities." Thanks in part to such extravagances, Wang said, the government ran a $1.9 billion budget deficit in 1986 and can expect $2.2 billion in red ink this year. Planning Commission Minister Song Ping took up the theme: "Financial and economic discipline has grown lax everywhere." Song's solution: "Simple living, hard struggle and industry and thrift...
When independent filmmakers team up with major studios, the drawbacks of working for a big company suddenly hit home. Director Spike Lee, whose 1986 picture She's Gotta Have It earned $7 million on a $200,000 budget, recently caught flak from executives of Columbia Pictures, the Coca-Cola subsidiary that is distributing his current $6 million movie. Reason: Lee's lead character was named Slice, which happens to be a brand of soft drink produced by rival Pepsi-Cola. The director reluctantly changed the character's name...
...ratings to its current No. 9 spot. The show's success is Executive Producer Glenn Gordon Caron's best response to charges that his work habits are undisciplined. "It sounds pompous," says Caron, "but maybe it's irresponsible to bring a television show in on time and on budget every week and have it be about nothing...
...people of Nicaragua, however, there is little cause for optimism at the moment. The five-year war effort has badly battered the economy. As much as 60% of the country's budget is now committed to defense, and the remaining funds are sorely mismanaged through a combination of inexperience, corruption and political rivalries. Last year, as runaway inflation neared the 800% mark, wages remained frozen, making it virtually impossible for workers to live on their take-home pay. Government bureaucrats at the clerical and technical - levels make an average of about $20 monthly. Not surprisingly, such conditions have given rise...