Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay on the budget lists "the $4.6 billion public-works bill for fiscal 1968" as a target for cutting [Dec. 8]. Unfortunately, you followed the practice of most American news media in failing to mention that more than $2.5 billion of that total is the budget for the Atomic Energy Commission. While not disputing that items in the public-works section of the bill could be cut, I feel journalistic accuracy should reflect the dual nature of the Public Works and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Bill. You might wish to express your opinion on whether the AEC portion should...
...propose an additional cut with which I am sure millions of Americans will agree? If the mail service is as poor in other parts of the United States as it is in Albuquerque, I propose cutting the entire budget of the Postal Department and returning to the Pony Express...
Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd last week predicted "certain cuts" in present air-safety programs in the 1968 budget...
Sidewalk Message. A reluctant France foots the bill for nearly one-fifth of its prodigal offspring's $29 million annual budget. When Soglo returned from a trip to France last month, he brought the message that "Dahomey will not in the least relax austerity...
...Your Essay "How To Cut the U.S. Budget" [Dec. 8], in the paragraph on Agriculture, raises some questions that cast doubt on the amount of research done by your writer. You claim the farm to be the home "of the nation's most coddled minority"-coddled by whom? Certainly not by the U.S. Department of Agriculture whose planning and continual changing of the Feed Grain Program has brought the price of corn down again this year. You blame rising food prices on Government subsidies-how about the fact that the U.S. housewife today wants her food completely prepared...