Word: budgeteer
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Last spring, in the midst of budget troubles, the University offered an early retirement package to staff members aged 55 or older who had served at Harvard for 10 years or more. That package was expressively proposed as an early retirement incentive aimed at trimming numbers and cutting costs...
Under all three options, faculty members will be paid their full salaries during the 2010-2011 fiscal year, so the plan will not affect this fiscal year’s spring budget...
...Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally used to publish a so-called humor magazine, recently announced that they'll be driving down to Princeton to serve as stand-in butlers for the few that the university had to lay off due to its own budget cuts...
...Many global health advocates worry that the success of PEPfAR - an initiative that has consistently enjoyed broad bipartisan support - may be jeopardized by harsh economic realities and shifting political priorities. Although Barack Obama pledged during the 2008 campaign to boost PEPfAR funding by $1 billion each year, his first budget proposed just $366 million more for fiscal year 2010 than the current year, and a majority of the 15 countries that receive PEPfAR funds will see no increase. After five straight years of funding hikes and public-health victories - in 2008, Congress reauthorized PEPfAR with a new commitment...
...Some health-policy advisers within the Administration, including Zeke Emanuel at the Office of Management and Budget, argue that a more effective global health strategy would shift some funding away from PEPfAR to focus on maternal- and child-health programs, which can produce significant results for a lower cost through food and nutrition programs, as well as treatment for so-called opportunistic diseases like malaria and TB. But many global health advocates argue that this approach unnecessarily pits diseases against each other. A Nov. 25 letter to Obama from a group of progressive religious leaders urged him "to ensure funding...