Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naming a 20-member Commission on World Hunger. Said he: "We cannot have a peaceful and prosperous world if a large part of the world's people are at the edge of hunger." Chaired by former Panama Canal Negotiator Sol Linowitz, 64, the commission has a $3 million budget and a daunting task: to review existing studies on global food shortages, consult with international experts and recommend steps by mid-1979 that the U.S. and perhaps other nations can take to combat the problem...
Boschwitz has designated much of his $1.3 million campaign budget for a TV blitz pressing the issues of inflation and high taxes. He supports the Kemp-Roth proposal for a 30% cut in federal income tax rates. Boschwitz has won support from environmentalists by backing strong restrictions on motorboats in northern Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area. He has gained favor among right-to-lifers by offering to introduce a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion except in the case of rape or incest or when necessary to save the mother's life. These are issues on which Anderson...
...during those same years, the financing of the state's public schools has become a crisis. Cleveland has had to borrow $20.7 million in state funds to reduce a deficit in its education budget. Similarly, 35 school districts are in danger of closing early this year for lack of funds...
With polls showing that education is the chief concern of most voters, the issue has been seized on by Democratic Nominee Richard Celeste, 40, a Rhodes scholar and father of six who has been Lieutenant Governor since 1974. Celeste favors cutting property taxes and making up the school budget gaps from corporate and personal income taxes. He has carefully refused to provide any estimates of what his proposal would cost and avoids mentioning that it would probably require an income tax increase. Claims Rhodes: "He doesn't have any education program...
WISCONSIN. Fifteen months ago, when Governor Patrick Lucey was named Ambassador to Mexico, he bequeathed to his successor, Democrat Martin Schreiber, a healthy state economy and a budget surplus projected to total $500 million by next June. To soak up the spare cash, Schreiber, a colorless career politician, proposed cutting property taxes by a modest $110 million and increasing state spending on water purification, schools and debt reduction. But Schreiber, 39, has run afoul of Proposition 13 fever, which has been skillfully exploited by his Republican opponent, Lee Sherman Dreyfus...