Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pinched Budget. Head Start administrators see their problem in the fact that under HEW the individual states would control the program and possibly curtail its scope. Traditional support for state control is one reason for the longstanding Republican opposition to OEO. When Head Start proved to be not only a resounding success but also a catalyst for integration, Southern Democrats joined the opposition. Now OEO fears that segregationists would deliberately downgrade the program in the South...
...good works between now and next year." Fearing the worst, OEO personnel are leaving the agency at record rates. Sargent Shriver's successor, Bertrand M. Harding, has adopted a conciliatory tone toward Congress but has thus far failed to placate his foes. Next year's budget is even more pinched than the outlays that Shriver fought to increase. Yet even OEO's future is not the key issue The agency's original mandate, after all, was to create programs that could some day be turned over to old-line Government bureaus. The underlying problem actually...
...historically No. 3 in news budget and ratings, tried the most novel approach. Forsaking gavel-to-gavel coverage, it opted for a nightly 90-minute wrap-up of the day's proceedings. While the opposition networks were carrying the early hours of the convention, ABC viewers saw Rat Patrol, Garrison's Gorillas, or an old Jerry Lewis movie. Simultaneously, of course, ABC cameramen were taping the minute-by-minute events on the floor and around town. This footage was quickly edited into an "instant special," which went on at 9:30 p.m. local time. The opening night...
...league's proposed budget of $6,100,000 is largely contributed by major corporations and white donors. As the most affluent of all civil rights groups, it has the green power to turn words into deeds. Last year its 1,400 full-time workers found jobs for more than 60,000 applicants, upgraded workers in 10,000 jobs, and placed 20,000 more in training programs. Next year league staffers will also tackle merchants who gouge ghetto dwellers with unfair credit terms, bad housing, and the explosive issue of police in the slums...
Combining the concerns, he solicited support for his idea from Rice and Houston business firms early last spring. The response was sufficiently encouraging for Horstman now to be thinking in terms of a conference budget of $35,000 and considerable national publicity...