Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouraging news for them. The government's operating budget has gone from a $30 million annual deficit to a slight surplus this year. Fruit and vegetable exports have doubled. Housing starts are up 60%, the capital flight has halted, and new investment is trickling in. All this is creating jobs and easing the country's massive unemployment, which still stands at 30%-a good sign that, despite its accomplishments, Balaguer's regime has plenty of problems left to grapple with...
Hitch is obviously equipped to cope with the need for squeezing the most out of the university's tight operating budget ($251,500,000 this year). A prime reason for choosing Hitch, some regents indicated, was their feeling that what the nine-campus university needs most is a coordinator who can get the strong chancellors of each campus to work together, without squelching the initiative of each...
...present, the Administration will need no additional funds. The current $70 billion defense budget, approved only last week, includes $817 million for development and deployment of the system; another $168 million was appropriated last year for work on Nike X but never used. The decision to deploy the "thin" defense does not preclude future agreement with Moscow-though once U.S. and Russian ABMs are in place, it will be difficult to dismantle them. Further, the thin line could later be thickened if U.S. strategists concluded that Moscow posed a real threat of a missile attack...
...nine-man city council, will have less authority than most other big-city mayors. Not only will he owe his $28,500 job ($6,500 less than he made in New York) to the White House rather than the city's voters, but he must also pass his budget through Congress, most particularly the frequently unsympathetic House District Committee...
...special session of the Bundestag, German lawmakers last week nodded their approval of Mifrifi,* a pro gram of stern tax measures and lower government spending designed to elim inate a $16 billion budget deficit for 1968-71. Paradoxically, they also approved an extraordinary budget for a $1.3 billion public-works program. Both moves were part of an effort to boost the German economy from the recession that began last fall...