Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wounds. In fact, a great preponderance of our patients have preventable communicable diseases-typhoid fever, cholera, bubonic plague, hepatitis, malaria and other such conditions-that are the result of environmental health problems and lack of basic health education. Dr. John Knowles recommends that we double the U.S. medical budget, bring in more U.S. surgeons, train more Vietnamese doctors and start an immunization program. Might we suggest the most desperately needed commodity of all: public health technicians. The crowding of hospitals can be drastically slashed through implementation of an environmental health, preventive medicine and sanitation program. This would...
...Hill that a joint conference committee moved not an inch toward resolving a dispute over a normally routine financing measure needed to fund agencies for which regular appropriations are still pending. The House wants to use the financing resolution as a lever to force the White House to make budget cuts of up to $8 billion while the Senate refuses to cooperate in the ploy. While the conferees scheduled yet another meeting for this week, the District of Columbia government, the Agency for International Development and the Office of Economic Opportunity -technically dollarless since Oct. : struggled to meet payrolls...
Worse, to Carnegie thinking, the $9,000,000 is a one-shot grant rather than part of a permanent annual endowment that would insulate the Public Television Corporation from yearly budget screening and perhaps meddling censorship attempts by Congress. Says Edward P. Morgan, the veteran ABC newscaster who is chief correspondent of PBL: "No self-respecting journalist can go hat in hand to Congress every year, saying, 'We'll treat you better next year if you give us $100 million...
...There have been the threats, the accusations, and the economic and social boycotts the Souther liberal has to face. "The wolf is always at the door," Smith's wife joked. The family did not pay its phone bills for six months. The campaign ran on a tight $4,000 budget. "I refused to let it come out of the grocery bill," Mrs. Smith said. It didn't. The money trickled in from numerous friends...
...City Manager appoints members of all City boards (planning board, recreation board, etc.). He plans the budget from which the Council has only the power to delete. He has some discretion in awarding small contracts and choosing from among the top scores on civil service exams...