Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third assistant superintendant was created last spring, and Duehay charged them that it was a tool in a political deal to pass budget cuts...
With a weekly budget of $150,000 and a vast network of talent scouts, Sullivan's product sells chiefly because it is first with the best. His first show, in 1948, introduced a young comedy team named Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Since then, he has presented the U.S. TV debut of such performers as Edith Piaf, Clark Gable, Maria Callas, Humphrey Bogart, Jackie Gleason, Marian Anderson, Julie Andrews, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, and the Beatles, not to mention such oddities as Liberace and Rise Stevens singing...
Sellers occasionally evokes vague memories of Chaplin and a promising young screen comedian named Peter Sellers who was awfully funny in some low-budget British farces. Early on in his career, he proved he could play a U.N.'s worth of accents and roles. Lately, however, his roles have been playing him, a familiar figure afflicted by gigantosis of the production and paralysis of the talent. Unlike his black-and-white delights of the '50s, this Technicolor collage substitutes fake eccentricity for true humor. One man wears a toupee that looks like melted LPs, another drinks nothing...
...strains the mind, however, to imagine that when the United States quashes Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong, American bodies will be any safer from amphibious attacks from other "third world" powers. But it is not impossible that LBJ has decided to use the Vietnam war budget to provide secret funds for a new network of underwater electronic barriers in the Atlantic, Pacific, Great Lakes, and Rio Grande to halt all future North Vietnamese infiltration...
Under the leadership of the Spanish-born architect, the School of Design has expanded in 15 years from 170 students to 270, and from a faculty of under 20 to more than 60. The school's endowment has more than doubled, the yearly budget has been quadrupled, and the amount of money in outside grants has increased about tenfold...