Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Promises and piecrust," observed Dr. Swift, "are made to be broken." By ignoring such cynicism, California's Ronald Reagan risked a lot of pastry. During his election campaign, the new Republican Governor had pledged "sound financial management," and last week had the crust to demand the highest budget ever proposed in any American state, buttressed by the biggest tax boost in California history...
Trustees of the "independent" schools shouldn't be any more frightened of public funds than university trustees, Sizer argued. "Arrogantly autonomous Harvard derives over 40 per cent of its budget from the federal government," he pointed out, "and while constant battle is waged to retain old Dame Cambridge's virginity I think it's yet intact...
...Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Lands Division, Clark was an efficient administrator with a knack for economy: for three straight years, he ran the division for $300,000 less than its $3,500,000 budget. When Nicholas Katzenbach moved over to the State Department last October, Clark became Acting Attorney General. It had taken Johnson 148 days to publicly remove the "Acting" from Katzenbach's title in 1965-and Ramsey was kept waiting precisely the same number of days. The President broke the news with that touch of coyness that has become almost a trademark. Having dropped...
Better Delivery. In the health section of his message, Johnson abandoned last year's proposal for a $10 billion, ten-year loan program for hospital construction. He did earmark $1.5 billion of the total $12.4 billion health budget for biomedical research and called for the training of 1,000,000 more health workers in the next decade. But his chief emphasis was on achieving "better delivery of health care" through such measures as using doctors' offices for many examinations that are now conducted in hospitals...
...students will participate in programs connected with EFA this summer, and if the board uses all the money that remains from the Ford grant, as well as $2500 from the Esso Foundation, nearly $6000 will be available to them. This is still considerably less than last year's budget, but some students will finance themselves, and others have been channeled into already existing projects that have money of their...