Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he inherited an ocean of red ink, Lindsay has begun to restore the city's fiscal integrity with his new taxes. To balance a welfare-bloated budget of $4.5 billion -bigger than any other state budget except California's and destined to swell still more next year -he is pressing the state for as much as $150 million in new aid, has opened a Washington office so that New York can get a larger slice of the federal pie. After the state legislature blocked his attempt to gather all the city's transportation functions under...
...qualities of an efficient administrator but also a badly needed talent for improving police relations with Negroes and Puerto Ricans. » Corporation Counsel J. Lee Rankin, 59, a Nebraskan who served as U.S. Solicitor General in the Eisenhower Administration and later as chief counsel of the Warren commission. » Budget Director Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, 43, holder of a Harvard master's degree in public administration, who served as chief examiner for housing programs in the Federal Budget Bureau and deputy director of the community action program in the Office of Economic Opportunity. » Thomas Hoving...
...efficiency measures, Lindsay faces another deficit threat next year, and he admits that local taxation has gone "almost to the point of no return." Lindsay believes that the city's agony of purse and soul begins at the ghettos' doorstep; while New York's operating budget has risen 150% in ten years, the cost of social-welfare services has gone up 222%. Lindsay hopes to relieve the mounting burden by changing the basic approach of public welfare services from merely dispensing cash to emphasizing vocational training and family planning...
...Democratic Union and the nine from the Social Democratic Party got their initial taste of working with longtime political foes. The main task: formulating a policy statement of government objectives, which Kiesinger will present this week to the Bundestag. Some of the points: warmer relations with Paris, fiscal reform, budget cuts...
...finance. Former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's government in effect fell over the refusal of his Free Democrat coalition partners to go along with needed tax increases. But Strauss has less balky coalition mates. As a start toward wiping out the $1.5 billion deficit for the 1967 budget, Strauss did exactly what Erhard had wanted to do: increased taxes on gasoline and tobacco. The new political alignment made all the difference: Strauss's bill to collect an additional $375 million in revenues zipped through the Bundestag with a healthy majority. Marveled Hamburg's Die Welt: "Financial problems that...