Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show that his Administration was doing its share, Johnson asked his Cabinet to reduce spending by $1.1 billion over the next three months in order to cut the budget deficit to $5.3 billion. He asked the mayors to cut spending too. "The Federal Government is doing it," he said. "I have asked the Governors to do it. I have asked the businessmen, the private managers, to do it, and I am asking the mayors to do it." Very shortly, he added, he would ask "the leaders of the workingmen of this country"-most notably A.F.I.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
Third, the cut in the budget for each show will encourage the plays' producers, directors, and set designers to be more "Imaginative and experimental" in both choosing and producing their plays...
Moreover, the budget cut will necessitate increased cooperation between the producers of next year's shows. Jaszi pointed out that parts of sets may be able to be used for more than one show. But he noted that in such areas as costumes and publicity cost-cutting will present "more of a problem for our imagination...
Miss Porritt said, however, the budget limitations force the library to close by midnight. She added that a plan is being considered to provide all-night study facilities in the dorms...
William Schroeder's set appears to have been built under pressure and with little in the way of a budget, but it certainly serves its purpose. Some of Ellen Geisler's costumes--particularly Miss Hart's--are very effective, even if a few of the actors have haircuts and demeanors that seem a lot more 20th-century-Harvard than 19th-century-London...