Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that L.B.J. would not be likely to approve: that Texas submit to the rest of the states a constitutional amendment requiring the Federal Government to return 5% of all federal in come taxes directly to the states. In Nevada, incoming Republican Governor Paul Laxalt proposed a "hold the line" budget...
Heavy fallout of pollution particles in metropolitan areas deposits layers of grime on automobiles, clothing, buildings and windows; it adds about $600 per year in washing, cleaning, repairing and repainting bills to the budget of a family with two or three children in New York City, according to a study made by Irving Michelson, a consultant in environmental health and safety. Because of fly ash and soot from smokestacks, the main façade of Manhattan's New York Hilton was so badly discolored that it had to be replaced last year, only 31 years after the hotel...
...failing to pre vent two years of intermittent disorder at the university's oldest and most prestigious branch at Berkeley. But the timing of the dismissal was a shock. Only a week earlier, Kerr had fought forcefully, in joint cause with most of the regents, against a 20% budget cut and a tuition fee proposed by newly installed Governor Ronald Reagan (TIME...
Precipitate & Unwarranted. Kerr, apparently, fought too hard. After the budget and tuition proposals had been explained to the regents, he temporarily suspended student admissions, as did Glenn S. Dumke, chancellor of the 18 state colleges. It was an obvious political gesture designed to arouse Californians against the budget cut, and it caused consternation among prospective stu dents. Reagan, who regarded his proposals as "provisional" and subject to compromise, angrily called the freeze "precipitate and unwarranted." Equally disturbed were several of the regents, since Kerr had taken his action without consulting the board...
...actual firing came at the end of a relatively calm 1½-day public discussion of the budget, at which Reagan once again expressed his willingness to modify both the size of his cuts and the tuition fee. With business apparently completed, Theodore Meyer, a San Francisco lawyer and chairman of the regents,* told Kerr that the board wished to consult in private...