Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day Hassan formed a new Cabinet of 20 ministers with himself as Premier and pledged "resolute action" and "radical change." Though notably lacking in austerity himself, Hassan was prepared to impose it upon the nation, as well as a new budget and a new three-year plan. He promised new national elections and a return to "efficient parliamentary life"-some time also in the future...
...public servant-turned-educator who turned public servant again, Bell was the third man selected for President-elect John Kennedy's government. He came to Washington as Director for the Budget Bureau and became foreign aid administrator in 1962. The citation called him "an able, selfless public servant upon whose kind depends the health of our democracy...
...farm-equipment makers, who for years have concentrated on building up a $700 million market in agricultural tractors, have found another $100 mil lion business right in the backyard - of thousands of U.S. homeowners. With increasingly bigger homesites and more money in the family budget, the small garden or utility tractor, long mostly a toy for the wealthy, has become an all-round bestseller in suburbia and exurbia. Only six years ago, garden-tractor sales were a bare 27,000 throughout the U.S.; this year the industry expects them...
Nobody was more relieved to be free of the planners than No. 9's manage, Y. S. Taraskin, who in 1964 had been buffeted by no fewer than 30 changes in target figures, 17 revisions of cost estimates, and 13 switches in his budget allotments as decreed by central planners. Taraskin is a happier man today, for Izvestia announced a spectacular first-quarter for No. 9 under Libermanism. Daily coal production soared to 2,041 tons, a 33% increase over the expected 1,520 tons. Earnings rose, wage costs were reduced even as workers got bigger bonuses...
...authorization was tacked on to NASA's $5.2 billion budget passed by the Senate 79-4. Senators Leverett Slatonstall '14 (R-Mass.) and Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) voted for the bill...