Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homes have been started for 600 families. One hospital and 17 health centers have been built to combat, among other ills, the cholera and plague that endanger the area. In all, some 200 projects are completed or under way, and the government estimates that the youths, with a budget of 10 million piastres ($84,700), have generated 30 million piastres ($254,200) worth of construction...
Dogs & Fashions. Nor did the headlines end there. Whizzing back and forth across his five New York boroughs with their 35,859 acres of parks and 11,000 employees backed by an annual capital budget of $28.2 million, Hoving has managed to announce free dog schools in Central Park (40 dogs and owners showed up opening day), officiate at a kite-flying contest, and make sure that there were 500 old car tires ready for the upcoming tire-rolling contest...
Today the Transkei is anything but independent. The South African government furnishes most of its civil servants and most of its budget. It is virtually without industry, its soil is eroded and impoverished, its roads little more than tracks for the oxcarts that travel them. Its women wear blankets redder than the dusty earth, its old men sit on the ground in front of their huts smoking long-stemmed pipes. And its young men leave as soon as they can to seek work in the white cities...
...vision. White comes to the job with a background in weather research, first with the Air Force, then as president of Travelers Research Center, Inc., and later as chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Most observers consider him superbly equipped to chart the new agency's $145 million budget, 14% of which is earmarked for both in-house and contracted research...
...budget is sure to sprout quickly. Recently, the President's Science Advisory Committee recommended combining the oceanographic functions of ESSA with those of the Geological Survey, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Bureau of Mines, and even the Coast Guard. Although the report stopped short of directly fingering ESSA to head this research, the logical conclusion is that ESSA may soon become the earth-bound parallel of space-bound NASA...