Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hardest budget of all to pin down is Kennedy's. In addition to paying for a three-floor Washington headquarters, an army of arm-twisters and saturation-of-publicity media-not to mention his bill for the dozens of cuff links seized by avid admirers-Bobby in Indiana, Nebraska and California has rented trains at a total cost of $8,700. No one has even attempted to reckon the cost to Kennedy of supporting the 13 relatives who are campaigning for him in the field, but their daily phone calls home must cost-by anyone else's standards...
...really matter what the Beautiful People think? Yes, in a way. McCarthy might have brought many people to Madison Square Garden all by himself, but a mass of other entertainers helped make the night a smash: the $300,000 take provided more than a third of the entire budget for his California campaign...
...Fulbright was taking potshots at the Pentagon's $660 million military-science research program, the $80 billion defense budget was getting a discouraging reception from tribal magicians elsewhere in the Senate, notably Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. But the Fulbright spell was still the most potent. In his criticism, he singled out studies seemingly remote from conventional soldiering. Why, for example, was the Defense Department studying Latin American students? Foster stuck to his brief, explaining that offbeat information was required because the U.S. might have to become involved in the unlikeliest places...
...dubious deterrent, required more than $2 billion a year. Not enough was left for the workers, whose wages lagged behind those in every other Common Market country except Italy. To add to the pinch, De Gaulle increased social security payments and cut benefits last summer to cover his budget deficit...
...programs, Abernathy has been understandably vague. He vows that the poor will "plague the pharaohs of this nation with plague after plague until they agree to give us meaningful jobs and a guaranteed annual income." All the same, he is well aware that with Congress considering a $6 billion budget cut, such ambitious demands are not likely to be met. He and his lieutenants would probably be happy to settle for far more limited steps-notably, a reversal by Congress of the 1967 freeze on the Aid for Dependent Children program, enactment of a provision to create 450,000 jobs...