Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real testing ground for the Great Society, for 70% of all Americans are city dwellers. To the nation's mayors, the answer is more cash. Complaining about cutbacks in a number of urban programs ordered by the President last week for the purpose of shrinking the budget deficit, New York's John Lindsay cried: "Something is wrong with our national priorities when we reduce our commitment to our cities by well over a billion dollars at the same time we leave our space program virtually intact...
...evidence that nobody can be certain whether he intends to raise taxes or hold the line. "New numbers come in almost every day," said Ackley, and Johnson juggles them with the skill of a center-ring virtuoso. Last week, for example, aides in Austin hinted that the fiscal 1968 budget might total $140 billion-an almost certain portent of higher taxes. Almost immediately, however, they began "massaging" the fat out of that figure. Come January, and-presto!-Johnson will look like a genius if he unveils a budget in the neighborhood of $130 billion instead...
...would control a commanding 447 members of the Bundestag. The only opposition would come from the 49 members of Erich Mende's Free Democrats, who sparked the crisis in October by quitting Erhard's government in protest against tax increases needed to balance next year's budget...
...sought a seat on the board of directors. But the Moores were open to the criticism that Canada Dry, with a market in both soft drinks and whisky and sales of $171 million annually, has failed to live up to its marketing possibilities in spite of a record advertising budget that currently, at Simon's urging, has reached $20 million. With Mahoney in as chief executive, the junior Moore will now become chairman and his father honorary chairman...
...delegates called for an end to involuntary conscription and denounced the large standing army and huge defense budget as a cause of the Vietnamese...