Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal instrument was the defense budget, which had traditionally been sliced up among the three services, with each recipient determining pretty much how its portion should be spent. McNamara replaced this with a system of allocation by function, or mission, regardless of service bureaucracy. Nine broad missions were defined, such as strategic forces and general-purpose forces, and the Army, Navy and Air Force departments were compelled to integrate their efforts whether the activity was nuclear targeting or paper-clip purchases...
...these sessions he liked to cite John Kennedy's original direction to him: "Determine what forces are required and procure and support them as economically as possible." The first half of this mandate meant more spending. Even before the Viet Nam war reached major proportions, McNamara's budget was $10 billion above those of the last Eisenhower years because Kennedy was determined to establish his own military strategy-flexible response instead of John Foster Dulles' massive retaliation. Flexible response dictated that the nation must be able to meet any military challenge, whether nuclear, conventional or guerrilla...
...allowed to embark for home before paying an additional 14.3% to cover the pound's loss; at week's end 70 airlines agreed to increase by some 17% the price of airline tickets bought with pounds. A Scottish football team, traveling in Naples on a tight budget that became even tighter with the advent of the minipound, also had to ante up the difference. Miss Peru, winner of the Miss World contest two weeks ago in London, found her ?2,500 prize suddenly 14.3% poorer. And several cities in Britain reported that the number of inquiries about emigration...
Despite all the time on the job, Crowther has never been predictable. Producers were seldom confident as to how he would react. He appreciated small-scale, low-budget efforts like David & Lisa; yet he also praised Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra as "one of the great epic films of our day." An early, ardent booster of foreign films, he helped win acceptance for them in the U.S. with appreciative reviews of Open City and Bicycle Thief...
Complete Picture. The main obstacle to progress, says the museum's curator, Sir Frank Francis, is "the intractable nature of the building itself." Despite cramped facilities and a woefully inadequate budget (?4 million a year), he has tried to put a greater variety of the museum's vast materials before the public. In one imaginative display he arranged finds from the museum's 1963-64 New Guinea expedition into an attractive mix of the utensils of everyday life with elaborate objets d'art. "We endeavor to give a complete picture of a culture-not only...