Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing, it attached a rider to a HEW appropriations bill giving Southern hospitals the right-or alibi-to segregate patients if they judge that integrated rooms might prove "injurious" to their health. For another, it approved a $ 1,000,000 cut in HEW's civil rights enforcement budget. In addition, the Senate-approved Demonstration Cities bill was running into resistance from Congressmen who said they were getting complaints from constituents that "we don't need a Demonstration Cities bill-we already have city demonstrations...
...child of the Depression, a Democrat by upbringing and very emotionally involved"-he cast his first vote for Franklin Roosevelt. "Remember his platform?" asks Reagan. "It was all for states' rights, and it also promised to reduce the size of the Federal Government and cut the budget by 25%. Well, I'm still in favor of that...
...were riding a bandwagon instead of a tank. Since July, when the election "campaign" officially began, Costa e Silva has barnstormed virtually all of Brazil's 22 states, made scores of speeches, shaken tens of thousands of hands. He has promised his audiences almost everything: a balanced budget, control of inflation, more imports, more exports, better transport and communications, more electric power, better education, health and housing. His aim, he proclaims, is to promote "an authentic democracy, in which the rich are richer and the poor are less poor...
Government has taken thumbs-in-thedike measures against inflation. Finance Minister Anne Vondeling's newest budget calls for cutbacks on outlays for housing, defense and the age-old battle against the sea that the Dutch refer to as "water control." The government has also speeded up tax collections, raised gasoline and diesel-fuel taxes, and is keeping on an extra 1% tax on corporation profits initiated by an earlier government. But at the same time, the government, in various welfare programs, is spending more than ever. Next year, expenditures will exceed the current year's budget...
...third source of revenue, the orchestra had counted on support from the Federal government. Because of a budget reduction, the State Department could not make the grant this year. Four years ago, the HRO received a federal grant which financed 20 per cent of its 1962 summer trip to Mexico...