Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Examples: "Are your staff all runaways from the asylum?" "I asked for the bill, not the National Budget." "Was this omelette made with pterodactyl eggs?" "This tip is twice as much as you deserve." "Get your slimy hands off my bottom...
Edgy, spirited and serious is the debate currently under way in Washington before the subcommittee investigating the invasion of privacy and threats to individual liberty posed by the U.S. Budget Bureau's proposed National Data Center. This computerized fact vampire, as House Subcommittee Chairman Cornelius Gallagher and some others view it, would thirstily suck up data about millions of Americans from some 20 separate Government bureaus ranging, from the Social Security Administration and the Federal Reserve Board to the Census and Internal Revenue Bureaus, which already possess vast information stockpiles of their...
This is a lot of emotional nonsense, argue the proponents of the centralized data bank. Testified the Budget Bureau's Raymond Bowman: "This is a way to improve storage of and access to information for statistical uses. It would not have an interest in building up dossiers on individuals." A vigorous opponent of the data center, Vance Packard (The Hidden Persuaders), cited a case in which a department store refused to hire a man because his computerized record showed that at the age of 13 he had stolen $2 worth of fishing line. Argued Packard: "The Christian notion...
...Reich apparently fully realizes the versatility of a computer. In its own way it can even be programmed for Christian redemption, taught to forget in any desired period of time. But until Congress is convinced that adequate safeguards for protecting the individual's privacy are in force, the Budget Bureau is likely to make little headway. "We are all concerned about the dropout of today," said Gallagher. "But I'm interested in the computer reject of tomorrow...
...long ago, Peru seemed near the edge of economic disaster: plunging world prices had pulled the bottom out of the country's cotton and sugar markets, and a huge budget deficit threatened runaway inflation. Today things are different; in a remarkable reversal of form, Peru is prospering at a pace that few other countries on the continent can match...