Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second priority, the battle of inflation, he has acted with the surety of the company attorney. The budget will be cut. He has learned not to talk about the hardships of his early life publicly now, but in private he occasionally is carried back to those days when the Yorba Linda Nixons did not have money for a balanced diet, and he is then in a very real way attuned to the spiraling food prices in modest America...
...increases in Britain are imposed with guillotine-like dispatch. Disclosing few, if any, details in advance, the government presents the bad news in its annual budget and gets quick approval from a compliant Parliament. In what has become a national guessing game, Britons start hedge-buying weeks beforehand on goods and services that they expect to be hit by new taxes. They are urged on by shop-window posters that read "Beat the Budget." Because of Britain's economic difficulties, the guessing in recent years has been over where-not whether-the tax ax would fall...
...Afro-American Studies Committee will have an independent budget...
...have departmental powers. By the terms of the Rosovsky Committee Report, the Afro-American Studies Committee like other departments will be able to make its own appointments and to set up criteria for determining tenure and to institute courses. The Afro-American Studies Committee is to have a budget that enables it to implement its special needs and programs...
Topol has starred before-in Sallah, a minor movie produced and shot in his homeland. But this is his first leading role in an international big-budget project. It is difficult to see where the money went. Certainly little of it was spent developing the story. In an army camp, circa 1945, a British major (David Niven) tries to impose order on an overflow of displaced persons. From the serried ranks a leader named Janovic emerges. As played by Topol, he is a sleight-of-tongue artist. Janovic can lie in a dozen languages and seduce a girl with...