Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after resigning his post, is "in a state of flux." One reason why Connor quit after two frustrating years was the steady diminution of Commerce's influence over na tional economic policy, which now is substantively set by the big quadriad of the Administration's Treasury Secretary, Budget Director, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Thus the Commerce Department's official dominion is slight-and it became even slighter when Johnson last fall created an autonomous Department of Transportation, which stripped Commerce of such major bureaus...
Finally, the best defense being a good offense, Long asked the Senate to raise his subcommittee's budget to $200,000, an increase of $35,000, so that it might continue its wiretapping investigation...
...army (plus an aid program to North Viet Nam that is so far limited to supplying small arms, medicines, tractors, diesel engines, psywar personnel, military advisers and 50 MIG instructors), North Korean military spending will run to a hefty $465 million this year, or 30.2% of the total national budget. To justify it, Kim tells his country that war is imminent with the U.S.-backed "imperialistic dictatorship" to the south...
...state legislature budget hearing, University of Oklahoma President George L. Cross was once asked why he wanted so much more money for his school. Answered Cross: "We want to build a university of which the football team can be proud." He meant it as a joke, and the remark does seem inappropriate today: Oklahoma's football fortunes have been on the decline since the resignation of Coach Charles ("Bud") Wilkinson in 1964, while Cross has been steadily nudging his school toward standards of quality achieved by such state university giants as California, Wisconsin and Michigan...
...refusing the Federation of Teaching Fellows' request for a raise in pay: we just don't have the money. It may seem faintly ridiculous for an institution with Harvard's riches to plead poverty, but' the University is clearly in a financial squeeze. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences' budget contains a substantial deficit this year, and will probably run one next year too. The Federation's suggestions would cost Harvard $700,000 at a time when, as President Pusey said last week, "We're going to see more red ink around the 'University than we've seen...