Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem is compounded by the fact that the NEA is not a ministry of culture. It does not commission large works to reflect glory on the state, or set firm policy for other institutions. Its $169 million budget is tiny -- less than one-third the projected price of one Stealth bomber, or, to put it another way, only ten times the recent cost of a single painting by Jasper Johns. The French government spends three times the NEA's budget each year on music, theater and dance alone ($560 million in 1989). German government spending on culture runs at around...
...fetish of supply-side culture was one of the worst legacies of the Reagan years. Though the Great Communicator was frustrated in his attempt to abolish the Endowment in 1981, he made sure that more Government money went to military bands than to the entire budget of the NEA. Oom-pah-pah culture to , fit a time of oom-pah-pah politics. After all, who could say that the arts needed support outside the marketplace at a time when star orchestra conductors were treated like sacred elephants and the art market was turning into a freakish potlatch for new money...
...delayed the fall season and neutralized kickoff-week hoopla. "We're trying to find much more aggressive and interesting ways to wave to people, to grab them and interest them in our programs," says George Schweitzer, senior vice president of communications for third-place CBS, which increased its advertising budget by 25% this year...
...hard-liners the only threats to his position. If workers from other large industries take inspiration from the coal miners' success, as Gorbachev said he has, they could swamp the economy with a tidal wave of strikes. And with estimates that the budget deficit is already running about $160 billion and production growing by only 2.5% instead of the hoped-for 6%, Moscow would be hard-pressed to make more payouts like the one it gave the miners. Perestroika might make strikes more likely, since reform will eventually entail decontrolling prices and closing inefficient factories, measures that workers are likely...
BUSINESS: The shrinking Pentagon budget hits home...