Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interest of an informed citizenry." What he had to say was news to a lot of people, including most state legislators, who for the first time learned from the tube what the Governor would later ask them to enact in the form of a state budget...
...Ronnie Show was really a preview of California's gubernatorial elections, 20 months off. Reagan, who had previously hinted that he would be a candidate for a second term, sweetened his prospects on TV by informing Californians that his 1969-70 budget would yield them a onetime, across-the-board tax cut of 10%. It would come, conveniently, on next year's tax bill, for which Californians will be filing returns at just about the time Reagan's race would begin in earnest. Not to be outdone, Assembly Minority Leader Jesse Unruh, who seems likely to oppose the Governor, demanded...
...outside conceived the "Utopian University" as an answering service for every social and scientific problem. That concept, according to Barzun, has destroyed what limited good the university could do by distracting its energy from teaching. And the notion that higher education should be open to all has skyrocketed the budget, drastically increased the teaching load, and made classroom chores doubly undesirable. The faculty responded by giving up and withdrawing to their offices or laboratories to write books and "do original work." The prevailing belief among scientists, agency heads, business vice-presidents, philanthropists, college publicity directors and tax-payers is that...
...Committee's leaders say they plan to hold a national meeting in Washington within the next few weeks, in conjunction with other groups, to persuade Congress to cut out $1.8 billion from this year's Defense budget request for buying anti-missiles...
...delays in felony cases that have hitherto been tried in federal court. The President wants ten more judges to be added and 40 assistant U.S. attorneys to press prosecution of the immense backlog of cases. To strengthen the public-defender program and provide for rehabilitation of criminals, Nixon will budget $700,000. He also recommended that the district hire 1,000 more police. "Increasing numbers of crimes," said Nixon, "are being committed by persons already indicted for earlier crimes, but free on pretrial release. Many are now being arrested two, three, even seven times for new offenses while awaiting trial...