Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from his days with Monty Python to be truculent and never truckle, had earlier fought Universal Pictures when it was reluctant to release his film Brazil -- a masterpiece at a mere $15 million. This time he would run up a higher tab -- say, $17 million to $20 million over budget -- and into bigger trouble. David Puttnam, Munchausen's Hollywood sponsor, soon departed as boss of Columbia. Film Finances Inc., which stepped in to supervise the picture, threatened to fire Gilliam if he didn't scale back on the spiraling costs. A producer sued Columbia, claiming that five years...
When George Bush presented his 1990 budget last month, he reaffirmed his pledge to be the "education President." Yet the $36.5 billion he earmarked for education was $200 million less than the amount requested in the last Reagan budget. The decrease points up Bush's central problem in keeping his promise: how to improve education while chopping the deficit. Faced with daunting fiscal constraints, Bush finds choice an ideal program, since it stresses competition without involving major federal funding. So far, however, the President has neither provided strategy for supporting the plan nor suggested what might be done to ease...
...less determined to squelch the spreading impression that Bush is off to a feckless start -- the President and his aides shifted their goal from saving Tower's nomination to tarring the Democrats with charges of character assassination and hypocrisy. Positioning themselves for the inevitable future battles over the budget and foreign policy, the Republicans hoped to rescue something from the wreckage of the Tower affair by lowering Congress in the public esteem...
...while GSAS's budget from FAS has increasedover the last five years, the school--which unlikethe College does not have a need-blind admissionpolicy--could still use more money, professorssay...
...United States is facing a similar crisis in El Salvador. Last year American aid to El Salvador doubled that nation's budget. And extraordinarily generous support for the Salvadoran military, besides encouraging corruption and removing any high-level army incentive to end the war, sends a message to all Salvadorans--left, center and right--that El Salvador is not in charge of its own policies...