Word: budgeteering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Laird has a skilled executive with firsthand knowledge of the multi-billion-dollar Air Force projects that range from the newest supersonic planes to the manned orbiting laboratory. Before leaving NASA a year ago and returning to a teaching position at M.I.T., he was responsible for everything from budget planning to maintenance of the worldwide system of tracking stations...
...with so many of his glittering hopes broken, Johnson makes his farewells, grinds through the last budget, the final State of the Union message. He gleans what satisfaction he can by recalling victories in Congress, his associations spanning three decades, his joy over the last moon shot. String music, champagne and nostalgia warm the waning days. "I love Washington," he said last week. "I love this capital...
...embargo was in turn blasted as "a one-sided and indefensible act," by Premier Levi Eshkol, who called a Cabinet meeting for this week to consider an appropriate response. Still, some Israelis found a silver lining. The embargo makes more palatable to voters the $2.3 billion "war budget to prevent war" that Finance Minister Zeev Sha-ref presented to the Knesset last week. And it will likely produce millions of dollars in new funds from Jews around the world...
...match that, like many of the time, had been arranged while she was still in primary school. Her first shock as a bride came when she realized that her husband was consorting with geisha girls, Japan's professional entertainers, and was spending more than half the family budget on them. "I really dreaded geisha girls," she recalled. Her eldest son almost threw a rock at a geisha whom he saw walking with his father...
...needs to expand as population and production grow. The Federal Reserve Board controls the expansion, largely by buying or selling Government bonds. In the process, it makes adjustments for peak periods of demand, such as the Christmas shopping season, or times when the Treasury must borrow heavily to finance budget deficits. In addition, the Federal Reserve tries to use its monetary powers to moderate the ups and downs of U.S. business. But Friedman says that the board repeatedly errs in the rate at which it expands or constricts the money supply. As a result, it aggravates the swings...