Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Balancing the Budget...
...Helen H. Gilbert, chairman of the Board of Trustees, said Saturday that the Council itself might suggest a "slight change in the by-laws." She said that the Board of Trustees must choose Radcliffe's president and determine the budget for the College, but that in other matters "sometimes the College Council tells the Trustees what...
Rocks for Jocks. University of Texas students are fond of courses they call "Kiddie Lit," in which they analyze children's books, "Pots and Pans," a consumer's guide to household equipment, and "Piggy Bank," budget-centered instruction in personal finance. At Cornell, publicity in the Daily Sun ruined a freshman geology course known as "Rocks for Jocks," which is now unusually tough; but Mathematician Leonard Silver, who marks exams in a linear algebra course vaguely as either "swell" or "lousy," still gives nothing but A's. "I'm trying to help the student avoid ulcers...
...Many attorney friends of the poor had opened store-front law offices in city slums; what Lorenz proposed was the country's first statewide rural legal-aid bureau. Impressed, Shriver investigated and pondered for two months, then agreed to provide funds for a $1,276,000 first-year budget...
...longer. As somber as L.B.J. was sanguine, First National City Bank Chairman George S. Moore last week told a National Association of Manufacturers meeting in Manhattan that the sterling crisis only showed that "the dollar is at bay." Before long, he warned, rising inflation, the "virtually out of control" budget deficits and the deepening balance-of-payments problem might force the U.S. to devalue by raising the $35 gold price, which it has maintained since...