Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although many members left before the end of the meeting, the Faculty met yesterday to hear reports on this year's budget, the upcoming $250 million fund drive and the improvement of the quality of teaching in the College...
Saying he has not seen such a "mass exodus" in previous Faculty meetings, he added, "It is just typical of the Faculty's attitude toward teaching." Dean Rosovsky presented his annual budget letter to the Faculty warning that while the Faculty has had two consecutive years of a slight budget surplus, inflation threatens to bring a period of "renewed and considerable financial difficulty," he said...
...first meeting of the year, the Faculty will also hear Dean Rosovsky present his annual budget letter to the Faculty, and President Bok will report on the upcoming $250 million capital fund drive...
DIED. Julius Shiskin, 66, Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner whose monthly barometric reading of unemployment and prices measured the economic weather; of a kidney ailment; in Washington, D.C. A career civil servant, Shiskin worked in the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget before being appointed to his last post by President Nixon in 1973. Respected and apolitical, the BLS chief was reappointed by President Carter last year. Finding the consumer price index too narrowly based, Shiskin worked out new formulas to better gauge the costs of U.S. goods and services...
Unlike the first Roots, a then risky venture produced on a bare-bones budget, the new show is going first class. (Estimated budget: $18 million, three times the cost of the original.) "This time," says Margulies, "the network said, 'Name it -you guys are king of the mountain.' " Over $1 million was spent just to rebuild Henning near Los Angeles: during Roots 2, viewers will see the town grow from a dusty rural outpost into an industrialized modern city. Says Margulies: "Finally I had the money to shoot in an honest-to-God cotton field...