Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grew up in a food-conscious home in Boston; his father liked to re-create for his family meals he had eaten in European restaurants. While working on the cover, Burchard and his wife tried more than 50 recipes, many from Julia's cookbook, and "raised our food budget...
...most bitterly competitive transportation complex, a Gordian knot of railroads (214,650 miles), airline routes (280,696 miles), and highways (3,600,000 miles). To cut the knot, Boyd's department aims to coordinate the responsibilities of 31 federal agencies. With 91,000 employees and a $5.5 billion budget, he will run the Government's fifth-largest department...
When he succeeded in a military coup last June, General Juan Carlos Ongania's prize was a government with a budget deficit of about $800 million. He won possession of a national oil company so overburdened with incompetent politicians that Argentina was importing the fuel for the first time in a decade. He was boss of government-owned railroads with so much obsolete equipment and featherbedding that they were costing taxpayers $1,000,000 a day. Also in the package was a seaport complex that had been idled by strikes for a total of 85 days the year before...
After Kentucky's legislature author ized a 10% hike in school taxes, the Pike County school board duly upped its budget, then sought the necessary majority approval from the eight-magistrate fiscal court. Never, cried Magistrates Taylor Justice, Foster Bentley, Burbage Prater and Darwin Newsome. Because the tax rise exempts utilities from paying more property taxes than they already do, charged the magis trates, the school board actually was seeking an "illegal" 20.8% hike for ordinary citizens...
...higher court ordered the four intransigent magistrates, who had stymied the budget, to approve it forth with or face jail for contempt. By week's end the rebels had spent 17 days in jail without a sign of surrender." Each day, some of their fellow jurists and as many as 1,000 of their admiring constituents fed them cakes and chicken through the bars. Having filed a federal suit asking for their freedom, the prisoners patiently waited and happily feasted...