Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justify its theories with projects like these, to convince hostile researchers that the projects form a coherent whole may be beyond the Shadow Faculty's capabilities. Last month, some members of the Research and Development Center's Executive Committee -- which must approve the Shadow Faculty budget -- severely criticized the Shadow Faculty's overall goals even though the Committee approved almost all the projects...
Still, it was strictly an economy-class operation. Bing would have liked to have staged something extravagant, such as Aida or Turandot. Instead, the proud company was restricted to a measly six performances of two low-budget chamber operas - Rossini's Barber of Seville and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro - at the small (1,200-seat) Odeon Theater in Paris. Thus programmed, the Met's venture was bound to run into trouble...
...pressure on Mississippi leaders to change their feudal society. But the report also criticized the Ministry's failure to work with the local community, its less-than-candid activity reports to the National Council, and its fiscal casualness (1966 spending is $15,000 a month above the allotted budget...
...budget for the London crusade is $840,000-or, as Billy put it, "about what Cassius Clay got for less than three minutes in the ring with Sonny Listen." About half the money will be raised by passing the plate and selling books during the crusade, with the rest anted up by British churches and businessmen. One Graham supporter offered the crusade $14,000 on the enigmatic condition that Billy would not stay at the London Hilton; assured that Graham had confirmed reservations at the Kensington Palace, the backer doubled his contribution...
...senses that it is. Time and again, his Truman testimonials, having run out of plausible foundation, drift lamely into the damnation of faint praise. The fact that Truman increased the White House staff from 600 to 1,200 is listed as one of his achievements; so are his January budget briefings for newsmen and his veto record (250 bills...