Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the date the decision to go ahead was made. But national intelligence estimates can project potential enemy defensive capabilities only two to five years in advance. With this gap, the nation could be committed to an $8.1 billion weapons system it might not need. And with the defense budget already swollen with the demands of Viet Nam, McNamara refused to take that risk. Also, some defense officials felt that in the missile age, manned bombers were unnecessary. With Clark Clifford's arrival in the Pentagon, attitudes changed. The new Secretary of Defense was "inclined" to agree that there...
...that Portugal's position could not have been otherwise." To the cheers of the hawkish National Assembly, Caetano pledged to continue the seven-year anti-insurgency wars in Angola, Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique, which last year soaked up some 40% of the country's $817 million budget...
...fact that many are from the provinces and have their own local bases of power away from Madrid. Before long, the statements they usually issue after each session were taking strong exception to such unpopular Cortes measures as the "regressive" Official Secrets Law and the 1968-69 national budget, and a delighted press could hardly wait to headline the latest blast from los trashumantes sin rodeos (the nomads who don't beat around the bush...
...property--which could rise as much as $20 next year. Mahoney said that the pay raises would affect rent payers as well as property owners and cited the increased school construction problem, the MBTA deficit, and the MDC charges as problems which the City must still face in its budget considerations...
...funds from the Office of Economic Opportunity, has launched a counterattack on medical poverty in several severely depressed areas. The OEO has allocated $94 million to finance 51 neighborhood health centers, of which 33 are already operating and 18 are being organized. Unless it is caught in a budget squeeze, the OEO will start ten more centers early next year...