Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amory--a Harvard Law School professor for six years--is also former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency and chief international director for the Bureau of the Budget...
When the committee eventually makes its recommendations, the mayor will still have a hard time pushing them through Boston's obstinate School Committee. The mayor's only direct lever in school affairs is his power to veto increases in the School budget each year. That is hardly a sufficient weapon to convince the School Committee to approve broad-reaching reforms. The mayor is counting therefore on using indirect political pressure on the Committee. Any proposal, of course, will have his authority behind it. It will also be backed by the authority of the six-man committee--a group whose members...
...Capitol Hill, the rest of Congress might as well do the same. When the Congress did act, all too often it was only to wield an indiscriminate axe. To win approval of his anti-inflationary 10% income tax surcharge, the President last spring agreed to a $180 billion budget ceiling. Last week the Senate refused to exempt Medicaid benefits for the poor from that ceiling, then went one step further and sliced $500 million from the $2.3 billion originally allocated to Medicaid...
White Watson served on the secret panel the military's CBW budget tripled to $300 million and expanded into many new research projects. Products of that period's research have been part of the U.S. arsenal in Vietnam and the new high-powered police anti-riot arsenal...
...limousines but for the funds to hire an adequate staff. It is smothered in routine business and has little time for policing the industry-even if it wanted to. Moreover, the commission is subject to pressure from the President, who appoints its members, and from Congress, which appropriates its budget. Both the Administration and the Congressmen have many friends in the broadcasting business. Some members of Congress are in it themselves...