Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Machine-Gun Bursts. The President's principal preoccupation was the impending State of the Union address and the budget message. So determined was he to shroud the drafting of the State of the Union speech in secrecy that he waited until week's end to announce when he would deliver it-right after Congress convenes this week, in a night-time appearance designed to draw a large television audience...
...same reform spirit is spreading to other areas. The Netherlands has raised its scientific-research budget by 45% over the past two years. British industry has just rented a "brain train" to tour university cities and woo reluctant engineering and science graduates. There is serious talk about untangling Europe's thicket of loosely drawn patent laws and providing new incentives for formation of Europe-wide companies. Prime Minister Wilson recently suggested the creation of a European Technological Community to pool the products of its science and laboratories. But Europe's postwar record at this type of cooperation...
...places-Buddhist temples, tin-roofed schools, thatched jungle huts-swarmed 420,000 of the electorate. Somehow, Souvanna's web held. By week's end more than 30 of his supporters were elected, giving him a clear majority. In dismissing the previous Assembly for refusing to approve his budget, Souvanna had declared: "If the next Assembly is no better than the last, then I shall get rid of it." After the elections, though, he felt magnanimous. At a Vientiane news conference that included Russians, Americans and Red Chinese, he said: "I believe the new Deputies will work with...
...ARENA party's picked candidate, Costa e Silva pledged during his campaign to maintain and develop Castello Branco's revolutionary policies, but promised that he would try to "humanize" them. Brazil could stand some humanizing right now. Though Castello Branco has accomplished many things-cut the budget, slowed inflation, attracted new foreign investment-Brazilians are discouraged by years of harsh austerity and repression...
...recently as 1962, Ohio qualified as one of the less industrious of the nation's industrial states. Beset by an $83 million budget deficit, a dearth of new business, and a 25% drop in employment during the previous six years, Ohio set out to do something about its sluggish economy. Since then, no other state has wooed industry with quite as much ardor-or success. Last year Ohio lured an estimated $2.1 billion in new industrial investment, the best such performance ever by any state...